[SaaS Club] Lessons on Failure & Perseverance from a SaaS Founder

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🎧 Podcast
We just published the latest episode of The SaaS Podcast:

Lessons on Failure & Perseverance from a SaaS Founder

Abdullah Alsaadi is the co-founder and CEO of Taker.io, an online ordering platform and mobile app for restaurants.

How many failed startups could you handle before you gave up?

Abdullah built a cryptocurrency app, but there was no market for his product.

He built an app on the Salesforce Platform but they didn’t support app developers in the Middle East, so he couldn’t sell anything.

He started a B2B last-mile delivery company. His customers were happy, but he was losing money. And there was no path to profitability or a way to scale the business.

Next, he pivoted to a delivery management software product. But all his customers used the legacy point of sales systems that were impossible to integrate with.

It seemed like no matter what Abdullah tried, or how good his idea or product was, he just couldn’t find success. It was failure after failure.

Most of us might have given up. But Abdullah started working on his next idea.

But he was out of money and didn’t have the funds to build a new product. And he didn’t exactly have a strong track record of success to persuade investors.

Yet, he found a way to build a product, launch, and bootstrap to almost $1M ARR.

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💬 Quote of the Week
Here is the quote of the week from Abdullah:

📕 Book of the Week

This weeks' recommendation is The Laws of Human Nature by Robert Greene.

Here's a brief blurb about it:

"We are social animals. Our very lives depend on our relationships with people. Knowing why people do what they do is the most important tool we can possess, without which our other talents can only take us so far. Drawing from the ideas and examples of Pericles, Queen Elizabeth I, Martin Luther King Jr, and many others, Greene teaches us how to detach ourselves from our own emotions and master self-control, how to develop the empathy that leads to insight, how to look behind people's masks, and how to resist conformity to develop your singular sense of purpose. Whether at work, in relationships, or in shaping the world around you, The Laws of Human Nature offers brilliant tactics for success, self-improvement, and self-defense."

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