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Interviews with Failed and Successful Startup Founders

Building & Selling a SaaS for +$1M in 8 Months

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Headlime

January 18, 2022

Disturbing Virtual Office Status Quo with +200k Collaborative Hours Hosted

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Arkadiy Baltser

January 11, 2022

Making $24k in MRR by Building a Second Brain for Teams

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Fibery

Michael Dubakov

January 11, 2022

Helping 3,000+ Businesses Talk to Their Customers with a No-Code Chat Marketing Tool

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WotNot

January 4, 2022

Growing the Fastest Calendar SaaS to Thousands of Users

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Vimcal

December 21, 2021

Growing an All-In-One No-Code Tool After Raising $1.5M

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Software & Hardware

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Bildr

December 21, 2021

Hand-Picked Articles

Naming A Startup

January 9, 2022

How to Name Your Startup in 10 Steps

Naming a startup is hard as there're infinite options. Here's our 10-step process to come up with a cool, memorable, and strong startup name.

Business Ideas for Students

January 6, 2022

The Best 36 Business Ideas for Students in 2022

Looking for business ideas to start at school, college, or university? Here's a list of the best 36 business ideas you can start as a student this year.

Pitch Deck Guide

January 7, 2022

How to Craft a Startup Pitch Deck in 2022

Crafting a bad pitch deck can lead to lots of lost opportunities. In this guide, I’ll lay out everything you need to know to create an impactful pitch deck.

Unlimited Design Services

January 4, 2022

The Best 7 Unlimited Design Services in 2022 (+ Discounts!)

Here's a curated list of the best unlimited graphic and web design services (with discounts), as well as a guide on how to take the most out of your subscription.

Shark Tank Failures

September 2, 2021

Shark Tank: 7 Products that Failed & their 3 Biggest Misses

Shark Tank investors have backed companies that later failed and missed big opportunities. In this article, we analyze the 10 Shark Tank's biggest failures.

Startup Failure Rate

January 9, 2022

Startup Failure Rate: How Many Startups Fail and Why?

90% of startups fail. In this article, we analyze where does this percentage comes from and the what are the main reasons why startups fail.

Collections

+350 Pitch Decks

+14,000 Startups

+500 Failed Startups

Accelerators & Incubators

+2,600 Accelerators & Incubators

Top Startup Cemetery Posts

Vine

Platform to share short looping video clips

Multiple Reasons

Yik Yak

Anonymous location-based social network

Legal Challenges

Koinex

Cryptocurrency exchange platform

Legal Challenges

Formspring

Encouraged people to get to know each other

Legal Challenges

MySpace

Social network based on personal user pages

Multiple Reasons

Quibi

Short-form streaming platform

Multiple Reasons

Other Cemeteries

Google Cemetery

Amazon Cemetery

MUST Podcast Episodes

Ryan Hickman

From 50k Users in 6 Weeks to Shutting Down, with Ryan Hickman

Ryan Hickman co-founded MeVee, a video streaming platform that couldn't compete with Facebook Live and shut down. He is now successfully co-founding Epic AI.

Buster Benson

Bootstrapping a B2C Startup to +$20k/Month with Buster Benson

Buster is the founder of 750 Words, a journaling tool making $20k/mo. Prior to this, he built and shut down Health Month, a VC-backed health-related startup.

Bernard Huang

How +3 failures led to a $150k/month SaaS, with Bernard Huang of Clearscope

Bernard Huang was once an online professional poker player. He now runs a $150k/month SaaS, though he had to fail many times before to achieve it.

Matt Giovanisci

17 Years of Online Ventures, with Matt Giovanisci of Swim University

Matt is the founder of Swim University, the biggest niche site around swimming pool and hot tub care. He also founded Spruce, a failed analytics SaaS.

Nat Eliason

From Failed ML Startup to a +$100k/Mo Content Agency, with Nat Eliason of Growth Machine

Nat is the founder of Growth Machine, an SEO & content marketing agency. Before this, he founded, raised $125k, and shut down Tailored Fit, an ML startup.

Bram Kanstein

Becoming a Startup and No Code Expert, with Bram Kanstein of No Code MVP

Bram is the founder of No Code MVP, where he teaches how to validate startup ideas without coding. Before it, he founded and shut down an eticket marketplace.

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