Lessons From A Failed Startup

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Perry Ogwuche

14 episodes

9 months ago

Nathan Lustig, the managing partner of Magma Partners, a seed stage investment fund, shares his perspective on how he views founders with a failed startup under their belt.Learn more about Nathan:- Blog: https://www.nathanlustig.com/about/- Twitter: https://twitter.com/nathanlustig- Magma Partners website: https://www.magmapartners.com/- Crossing Boarders podcast with Nathan Lustig: https://latamlist.com/crossing-borders-with-nathan-lustig/- Episode with Alejandro Freund: https://latamlist.co...

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Episodes (14/14)

Lessons From A Failed Startup

Will investors invest in a founder who has had a failed startup? w/Nathan Lustig of Magma Partners

4 years ago

35 minutes

Lessons From A Failed Startup

The importance of building your company for customers and not investors w/Praful Mathur

Praful Mathur shares his experience with building a YCombinator company and loosing his co-founders and biggest investor in the process. https://www.linkedin.com/in/prafulmathur/

4 years ago

52 minutes

Lessons From A Failed Startup

Getting back to the workforce after shutting down a company w/Ayush Kumar of Vitrix Health

Ayush Kumar shares his experience with shutting his company and trying to get back into the workforce afterwards. LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/akumar0630/

4 years ago

44 minutes

Lessons From A Failed Startup

Shutting down one company and getting an acquisition offer the next day w/Peer Richelsen

Peer and I talk about his experience with shutting down his company Mage and getting an acquisition offer for his newer company Lean Hire, from On Deck, the very next day, which was when we recorded this episode. Peer now serves as the head of product at On Deck. Lean Hire Acquisition: https://www.beondeck.com/post/lean-hire

4 years ago

1 hour 2 minutes

Lessons From A Failed Startup

Why Glio, the first Latin American company in YC shut down with João De Paula

João De Paula previous co-founder and CTO of Glio, the Amazon market place for Latin America shares his story about building the company and having to shut it down after 6 plus years of running it.

4 years ago

58 minutes

Lessons From A Failed Startup

Shutting down a growing business at it's peak with Gaurav Maken of Mylk Guys

Gaurav Maken, previous co-founder of YCombinator's Mylk Guys shares his experience with building a growing business that he had to shut down at the height of their growth. Gaurav talks about the importance of focusing on what matters for your business and the importance of learning from the successes and failures of founders.https://twitter.com/gauravmakenhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/gaurav-maken/

4 years ago

45 minutes

Lessons From A Failed Startup

The story of YCombinator's GoScale (Heroku for pHp) and why it failed, with Co-founder Colin Hayhurst

Colin Hayhurst a successful entrepreneur , and startup mentor, shares his experience in starting and shutting down the YCombinator backed company GoScale that he co-founded with James Cunningham. The YC practice interview app, referred too, can be found here and the associated TechCrunch article here.Colin has a deep technical and commercial background with startups in engineering and applied physics software, web infrastructure, machine learning and search. He alo spent several years su...

4 years ago

46 minutes

Lessons From A Failed Startup

Being okay with the fact that your startup idea might be a bad idea and the importance of a good network

Renji Bijoy, founder and CEO of ImmersedVR talk about his company AraJoy which pivoted to becoming Immersed. He talk about the process he went through to realize that his initial ideas was bad and that he needed to pivot. He also talks about his startup hack to finding good developers for cheap and more. Connect with Renji:Twitter: https://twitter.com/RenjiBijoyLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/renjibijoy/

4 years ago

51 minutes

Lessons From A Failed Startup

Having a great idea and $1million and still needing to shut down. Discussing founder market fit w/Pranshu of Prayas

Pranshu, co-founder of Prayas Analytics- the google analytics for retail stores talks about the importance of founder market fit. He discusses his experience with shutting down Prayas after not being able to get any "real" customers even though they had money in the bank. Discusses how it was for him to get back out there after shutting down his company. You can connect with Pranshu on Twitter: @pranshu_m

4 years ago

40 minutes

Lessons From A Failed Startup

Learning from multiple failed ideas before building a multimillion dollar business with John Coogan of Soylent

John Coogan, co-founder and former CTO of Soylent shares his story publicly for the first time about his failures before Soylent.

4 years ago

48 minutes

Lessons From A Failed Startup

Fake traction and the fear of failing with Kristen Fang, co-founder of StrattyX (TechCrunch Disrupt & YCombinator)

Kristen Fang, previous co-founder of StrattyX, a trading interface that allowed you set up sophisticated “if-this-then-that” rules and execute orders on the stock market, talks about her experience with shutting down the company after being in the top 4 of Tech Crunch disrupt 2019 and midway through YCombinators Winter batch of 2020.

4 years ago

47 minutes

Lessons From A Failed Startup

MoveLoot raised $22m & shut down 3 years later. Here's the story w/co-founder Shruti Shah

MoveLoot was an online market place to buy and sell used furniture. They were part of YCombinator's winter 2014 batch. MoveLoot experienced a lot of growth and expanded to multiple cities including NY and LA. They raised multiple rounds of funding summing up to $22m, but ultimately the company had to shut down. Perry dives deep to learn what happened from co-founder Shruti Shah and draw out lessons learned.

4 years ago

48 minutes

Lessons From A Failed Startup

The story of YCombinator's Dropleaf (Netflix for video games) and why it failed, with Co-founder Vikram Rangraj (CAO @ Rize presently)

Vikram Rangraj and his co-founder had a really awesome idea to build Dropleaf, a video game subscription service for all you can play video games. Essentially Netflix for video games. They got into the prestigious YCombinator in 2017 and had to shut down only 2 years later. Vikram is currently the Chief Academic Officer at Rize Education and he shared his experience of building and shutting down Dropleaf in 2017.Twitter: https://twitter.com/VRangrajLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/...

4 years ago

54 minutes

Lessons From A Failed Startup

Launch Episode

Introducing Lessons From A Failed Startup Podcast. Perry Ogwuche gives a brief intro about the podcast and briefly describes his experience with his failed startup.

5 years ago

5 minutes