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Founder's Insights on Scaling a B2B API Fintech Product
Founder's Journey to Revolutionize the Travel Industry
How Crypto Hype Misled A Startup From Solving Real Problems
Spending $95K to Build a Product With No Demand
An Agency Founder's Journey from $24K MRR to Zero
The Danger of Fake It 'Til You Make It
Lost in the Idea Maze After Joining YC & Raising $462,000
Building a Nutrition B2B SaaS That No One Demanded
Going From University Professor to Agency Founder
Spending $477,924 on Building & Growing a Finance Blog
Bootstrapping a Twitter-Related SaaS to $41K/Mo
Building India’s Leading Social Commerce Platform
Growing a Digital Product Business to $10K/Mo
A Female Founder’s Reflections of Shutting Down an Education NPO
Building a Collaborative Branding Platform and Serving Unicorn Startup Brands
Building & Selling a SaaS for +$1M in 8 Months
Disturbing Virtual Office Status Quo with +200k Collaborative Hours Hosted
Making $24k in MRR by Building a Second Brain for Teams
Helping 3,000+ Businesses Talk to Their Customers with a No-Code Chat Marketing Tool
Growing the Fastest Calendar SaaS to Thousands of Users
Growing an All-In-One No-Code Tool After Raising $1.5M
Growing a Form Builder to +100 Customers in 8 Months
Growing a Photobooth Startup to Six Figures per Month
How a Non-Technical SaaS Founder Built a $1.5M ARR Business Working From 30+ Countries
Bootstrapping a User Feedback SaaS to $20,000 MRR in 3 Years
Bootstrapping a Ruby on Rails Educational Platform to $60k MRR
Growing a B2B Productivity Chrome Extension 20x Year-on-Year
Shutting Down a VC-Backed Startup to Build an $11k/mo Bootstrapped Business
Bootstrapping a Freemium No-Code Form Builder to $6k MRR
Failing at a Humanitarian Moonshot Aimed to Help Syrian People
Building the Bootstrapped SaaS Founder Ecosystem Since 2011
Reaching $6k in MRR Providing Cold Emails as a Service
Raising $2.6M to Build an AI-Powered Music Stock
Being Early in the Market & Raising $8M as an AI-Generated Content SaaS
Bootstrapping a Startup Agency to 40 Employees
Helping College Athletes Connect with Brands for Sponsorship
Building the New Auto Insurance in Mexico to +10k Subscribers
Bootstrapping a Server Backup Company to Five Figures per Month
Building a Free Photo Editor and Making $100k/mo as a Solo Founder
Raising +$1M and Failing to Build a Wellness Mobile Interface
Raising $3M to Build and Grow a Platform for Device Protection
Jared Brier and Eric Schneider
Making $15k/mo Helping Brands Understand Customer Reviews
Pivoting and Growing a Remote Client Portal SaaS for Agencies
Making +$15k/mo Helping Businesses Sell More on Amazon
Pre-Selling a Programming Course and Making $550k in Revenue
Seven Figures a Month Selling Cleaning and Sanitizing Products
+$20M/mo Selling Health Products to Help People Feel Better
Growing an Employee Scheduling Tool to Five-Figures a Month
Surviving COVID and Becoming the Digital Experiences Marketplace
Growing a Financial Comparison Company to $100k/Month
Turning a $300 Investment into a $60M Sunglasses Empire
Growing a B2B Lead Generation Agency to $18k/Mo
Making $80k/mo Building the World's First Relaxation Beverage
Growing a SEO Productized Service to $12K in MRR
Failing to Scale an Indian AgriTech Startup with $335k ARR
Bootstrapping a Side Hustle to $3k MRR with No-Code Tools
Starting a Running Retreat Business Just Before the Pandemic Hit
Making $17k/mo While Helping People Get Better at Coding
How to Avoid Creative Burnout and Build a +$1k MRR Business
How to Make Six Figures a Year Playing Golf and Drinking Cocktails
How Flexiple Reached $1M ARR in 4 Years and $2M in 4 Months
Growing a Self-Improvement Blog to $25k/Mo
Failing to Sell a GovTech Product Because of No Market Need
How Pandemic Panic Led to a $10K Paid Community Launch
Spending $12K to Build a Product With Poor Market Fit
Reaching $8k MRR in a Year Selling Software to Real Estate Agents
Launching a BodyBuilding App Without a Clear Marketing Strategy
Aiming to Build a Design Agency From Scratch to Seven Figures
Raising $300k to Build a Marketplace Without a Focus on Revenue
Losing €150,000 Building a Community for Young Entrepreneurs
Reaching +200k Monthly Visits as a 10-Year Old Running Blog
Building a No-Code Ad Production & Design Tool to $50k in 2 Months
From a Failing Referral SaaS to $25k MRR Fully Bootstrapped
Failing to Build a Profitable Marketplace Using No-Code Tools
Beating COVID and Growing a Travel-Related Startup
From Meeting on Tinder to Building a Designers Marketplace
Bootstrapping a Swag Empire to Millions in Monthly Revenue
From Screwed MVP to an $8k MRR Bootstrapped Startup in 3 Years
Building a Fitness Empire to a Multi Six-Figure Business in 10 Years
Raising €250k to Build an HR Platform & Failing to Find Product-Market Fit
Spending Thousands While Failing to Build a Meal-Planning App
Scaling an AI Writing Assistant to $90k MRR in 8 Months
From Pivot To Pandemic: How The Kimp Team Launched & Scaled
How to Burn $55k by Confusing Market Validation with Market Hype
Making $10k/Month Building the All-in-One Tool for Freelancers
Making $100k/Mo Designing and Building an Active Chair
Growing an Online Coworking to €5k/Mo with No-Code Tools
How a Startup Failed due to Being Early in the eBook Market
Trying to Raise Money Without Building the Product First
Building a VRBO Competitor Without a Clear Value Proposition
Acquiring & Growing a Scraping SaaS to $400k/Mo
How a Machine Learning Developer Started a Cold Email Service Business
Improving Streamers Game: Why a Remarketing Tool wasn't well Received by Fans
Growing a Waitlist to 50k Users after Pivoting during COVID
A Juicy $3,000 Mistake: Starting with a Product before Market Validation
Building a TikTok Analytics Platform While Losing Motivation to Market the Product
Creating Video Content for YC Companies and Achieving 1.2 Billion views
From AR/VR to Dropshipping: Two Side Projects Affected by Timing and Politics
Building a Product Too Difficult to Use: How Signups Didn't Translate to Active Users
Building a Product After Seeing a Market Need: How Salonist Thrived in the Asian Market
A Startup Rollercoaster: How Lernin Games Failed to Dominate the Game-Based Learning Industry
Turning a Failed Blog into a Multiple Six-Figure Business
Starting a Dual-Sided Marketplace: The Struggle to Balance Supply and Demand
Building a Multi-Million Dollar Company with Zero Industry Experience
Transitioning from Desk Job to Building a $60k/mo Cleaning Business
Building a Business While in High School: A 5-year journey full of learnings
Building a Growth Agency that Doubles in Size Every Year
How Focusing on Many Fronts Made a $6k MRR Business Shut Down
Bootstrapping a privacy-protection service to $3000 MRR
Growing a Food Delivery Startup to $10K/mo and Shutting it Down
Building and Growing the Airbnb for Car Maintenance
Raising $5.5M to Build the Community Platform for Creators
Raising $300K to Build the Lambda School for LATAM
10 Years into Selling Info Products to Creative People
Launching and Growing a SaaS after 2 Years of Development
Growing a Marketplace for Activity Centers to £1M/mo
Building and Shutting Down a Startup in an Industry Hit Hard by COVID
Bootstrapping a SaaS to $145,000/Year in a Competitive Industry
The Downtrend of Uptrend: A $15,000 failure in timing, branding, and lack of tools
How lack of focus meant $400k burnt and InoVVorX’s shut down
Bootstrapping a SaaS to $4k/mo in a competitive market
From $40k/mo to $70k in debt - Why this advertising agency shut down
Growing a SaaS-Related Paid Newsletter to $8k/mo in 4 Months
Bootstrapping a privacy-first Google Analytics alternative to $4k/mo
Kamua: +$6,000/mo Automating Video Editing
How we went from $1M raised and 100k users to shut down
Turning a Personal Problem into a $100k/mo SaaS
Stronger U: Earning $600k/month teaching proper dieting
From $20k/mo to 0 - How incorrect market focus killed the encrypted Google Doc alternative
Habitual’s Biggest Mistake: Underestimating the power of marketing
Turning Pain into $5k/mo Revenues: Pathways’ success story
Buttercloth: Quitting a full-time job to start a $6M/year clothing brand
How Depression Killed Thepresence, a Visual Website Builder
How Money Management Killed Adleaf Technologies
Turning $8k into a $30k/mo Drug and Alcohol Testing Business
From losing a business partner to shutting down a $20k/mo SaaS
Shutting Down a $3,500/mo Business due to Overwhelm and Overwork
Making a Living by Helping Small Businesses Find Softwares
Making $12k/mo & Spending 50k/mo - Behind the Failed “Evernote for Rental”
How this Postcard Marketing Internal Tool became a $54k/mo Co
Building a £5,000/mo marketplace for letting agents
Swoop: Turning a problem into a transportation startup
How COVID-19 Killed this App Side Hustle
Turning an internal email tool into a +$8k/mo SaaS
Burning $125k building a gaming content site
Growing a SaaS to $40,000/year while freelancing
Building a cloud management PaaS and raising €750K
Behind the growth of Tuff, a growth marketing agency
Shutting down Cuddli, a dating app for geeks with 100k users
Quitting my job to make $5000/month with side-projects
From side project to raising $450k - Building the remote work future
How I learned to code in 1 year, launched my SaaS and got my first users
101 Studios: My first failed edutainment startup
NE Lounge: $16,000 Amazon FBA Learning Lesson
Wavve: Making $76k a Month Turning Podcasts into Videos
lemlist: Making $1,000,000 a year from a cold email SaaS
Teamometer: $3k invested, 2 years gone and a HR SaaS no one needed
From $2k/Month to Failure - The story of Kaya.gs, the disruptive crowd-funded Go server
Dream Client Academy: Growing A Consulting Firm To $31k/Month At 21 Years Old
From $0 in 6 months to 1M downloads and $21,000/month - The story of Habitify, the habit tracker app
$100,000 Burnt and Shut Down: How co-founders relationship killed MotionThink
3 years & $50,000 burnt on KOLOS, an iPad racing wheel nobody wanted
Branch: $400k/mo selling furniture for startups
Scalefusion: $400k/month configuring businesses’ devices
Price2Spy: The Serbian price monitoring SaaS that makes $155k/month
Community Coders: Failing to build a profitable business while in University
350 clients, $212,000 and 5 employees - The story of the modern chimney company
Ansaro: How we failed to build a HR-related SaaS after 2 years, $3M raised & a team of 6
ScrapingBee: From 2 failed startups to $3,000/month in 4 months
Swipes: 6 years running a business that lacked product-market fit
CROSSNET: From Childhood Friends to +$2M in Sales
Playdate: From 5k Users to Zombie - The startup that burnt $40k and shut down
Okami Pack: The Never Launched Kickstarter — $44K Lost
GawkBox: 3 years, $4.4M raised, $1M+ revenue - Lessons from first-time founder
Waydev: Growing 40%/Month and Disrupting the Dev Analytics Space
VO2 Sportswear: Making £250k/year but Running out of Cash
Sport Draftr: Shutting Down & Losing £45,000 Due to Legislation Changes
MealSurfers: Exiting a $7K/Month Food Startup
Tali: Burning Through $750k with Little Return due to Lack of Market Fit
Gulp: Lessons learned from burning $15K in college
Imaginovation: A 100% Organically Bootstrapped Business Making 7 Figures
Readership: The Marketing Tool with No Market
Flexiple: $80K/month connecting startups with developers
Mangools: Bootstrapping a SaaS to +$250K/month on a Competitive Market
Helping +10,000 Companies Reduce Customer Queue Time
Stone: The e-Commerce that mastered word of mouth to $40k/month
Mongoose Cricket: Shutting down after investing +$130K in glitzy marketing
Standuply: Making $80K a month with a problem-solving Slack-first App
ClaimCompass: Disrupting the Airline Business and Making $100k/month
JustReachOut: Bootstrapping a PR SaaS up to $360k/year
140 Canvas: +17,000 visitors, 20 sales - The failed non-validated startup
Festivilia: From Failed Startup, to $11 Launch, to $15,000 in Revenue
OneUp: How to bootstrap and be profitable in a VC-funded market
Singulution: Burning $30,000 & 10 Months - Why you need to start lean
Encharge: $3,950 in Pre-Orders - How to validate a SaaS idea
Narcine: Building an Electric Vehicle as a Side Project
NOX: From $183,000/year to $0 - How not to deal with competition
GrowthMentor: Bootstrapping a Marketplace for Mentors
WedMap: From $100K Jobs to Failed Airbnb for Weddings
Campertunity: Building & Growing the Airbnb of Camping
Aura: Bootstrapping a SaaS Tool to $14,160/Month while Studying
Profitabilly: Shutting Down a Profitable Side-Project
Rankd SEO: How to Build and Validate a Backlink Database in Less than a Month
Emit: Raising $17,000 for a Productivity-Orientated Smartwatch
Tailor: Working for 2 Months on a Failed A/B Testing Software
Hubrif: Lost $10K Building the Netflix for African Short Films
REPitchbook: Building a SaaS Priced at $1,500/Month and Making $0
NerdPilots: Growing an Agency to $25,000/Month While Running 4 other Businesses
Growth Cave: Bootstrapping a Digital Marketing Agency in College
Genm: Growing a $49/Month Digital Marketing Internships System
Hyperstarter: Making $6,000/Month Profit From Crowdfunding Business
Pagestead: Bootstrapped Site Builder Making $7,000/Month
10er: Bootstrapping The Danish Patreon to $2,000/month
Canary: Quitting a $130,000 Job to Build an App for Musicians
Combat Flip Flops: Leaving the Army & Starting a +$350K/month eCommerce
Hubstaff: Growing a Time Tracking Software to $316,000/Month
Pull Reminders: Bootstrapping a Side Project into GitHub Marketplace
Lets Reach Success: How Lidiya Built a Personal Development Blog Earning $2,000/Month
Seomator: Growing a SaaS to $4k/month in a Highly Competitive Market
MetricSpot: Bootstrapping a $3,000/Month Site Working Remotely
PEAR Cards: Raising $19,000 With a Card-Based Tool
Dick At Your Door: Making $25k/month Selling Chocolate Dicks
One Hour Professor: How Ron Makes $10K/Month With 6 Different Websites
40 Aprons: Failures Behind Growing a Food Blog by 4,000%
Reroute Lifestyle: Find Niche, Create Content, Build Community
LeadsBridge: Bootstrapping a $150,000/Month Lead Generation Business
Beardbrand: Bootstrapped e-Commerce Making $100,000/Month
Posture Keeper: Creating a Business to Solve My Back Pain
Trackin: Solo Founding a +$167,000/Month Food Startup
Joker Greeting: Making $30,000/Month Selling Prank Cards
Browserless: Making $4,000/month With the Chrome-As-A-Service
Urban Masterclass: Making $10,296 Teaching How to Make and Sell Music
IWantThatFlight: Turning a Script into a +$110,000/Month Site
Park.io: Making $125,000/Month Selling Hacker TLDs
Matboard and More: Digitizing a Startup & Making $170,000/Month
Scream Pretty: Doubling Jewelry e-Commerce Sales With Instagram Influencers
Rayna Tours: Bootstrapping a Travel Marketplace in 10 Years
ONAK: Raising €235,000 for Foldable Origami Canoes
LiveAgent: Making +$250K in MRR with a Spin-Off Project
Puppet Pelts: Mistakes Behind $9,000/Month Selling Puppet Skins
Gadget Flow: Building a Site in 24 Hours and Growing it to +$2M/Year
Content Snare: Leaving His Job to Build a +$5,000/Month SaaS
Bugfender: Scaling an Internal Remote Logger to €9,000/Month
SPUDS: Graduating and Raising $15,000 for a New Clothing Brand
Tandem: Failing to Build an App in the Digital Health Industry
WantRemoteJob: Burning $6K Building a Failed Job Board
Lieferoo: Failing to Become the Next Uber for Awkward Items
Twitch Highlights: How Tzelon Failed to Build a SaaS for Twitch Streamers
Jobridge: How to Lose $20,000 Building an Offline-Online Job Board
Haptly: Failing to Build the Technical Product after 10 Months
Chowdy: Shutting Down a +$110,000/Month Food Startup
Zor Technology: 16 Years Old Boy Fails to Build an Import Business
The Punjab Kitchen: Failing to Overcome Competitors Prices
Taleship: Shut Down +600 Users Startup due to Hurricane Maria
Eventloot: Failing to Listen Feedback Means $20,000 Loss
Hashtag Pirate: Shutting Down After Instagram API Change
Phez: Losing $29,014 Creating the Bitcoin-Rewarding Reddit
Muun: Co-Working SaaS Killed by Big Competitors
Fantastic House Buyers: Shutting Down My PropTech Business
WURA: Burning $250,000 Building the Nollywood Netflix
Bediwin Information Services: Shutting Down my IT Support Company
Ink: Burning $16,000 in an Online Tool for Designers
ExploreVR: Losing $6,000 Building the TripAdvisor for VR
Autto.in: Burning $15,000 in Customer Acquisition
Lockpick Entertainment: How Overshooting Killed a Gaming Studio
WorldOs: A Product Nobody Cared About
Birdy: No Monetizing Plan = Failure
MotoBox: The Story of 2 Technical Co-Founders
The Nerd Cave: Losing $100,000 Building a Space for Gamers
KnowNet: How a SWOT Analysis Avoided Failure
Legaats: Why I Stopped Pursuing My 1st Startup Idea
Onepagetrip: Monetizing a Startup Is Not That Easy
BusyMind: The Startup with No Time
Botnim: 2 Co-Founders, 1 Digital Failed Startup
Shaked Klein Orbach & Gilad Peled
Ropero: Starting Big, Failing Bigger
Gameslog: Overcame Failure and Achieved $30K/Month
ABBY: Here’s What Andy Has Learnt
BeehiveID: The $70,000 Startup Killed by Facebook Data
Phoenix: Failed to Keep It Stupidly Simple
Addressbin: Problems of Being a Technical Solo Founder
Vivalatina: From Failure to Product-Market Fit Selling Online Jewelry
Mishra Motors: Huge Problem, Little Money
Team Voice: How Not to Bootstrap as a Solo Founder
QuickHaggle: Failing to Build a Big User Base
Boston Apartment Hub: Failed to Grow a Side Project
Tandem: My Failed Startup Inspired Success
ToyGaroo: Burning $250K Building the Netflix for Toys
Flux: The €85,000 Failed Multi-Messaging Client
Brisk: #1 Error: Being Dependent on Others
Eloquis: Losing $20,000 with a Bootstrapped SaaS
HitroNaSplet: Time Investment > Revenue = Wrong Direction
Sharkius: From $80k/Month To Failure
Gymlisted: Coding 8 Months a Thing Nobody Wanted
Waterproof Digital Camera: From $250/Month to Failure
AskTina: Failed to Validate the Idea
The Blogging Manifesto: Loving Your Startup is the Rule
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