🎉 Hey Failories! It's Nico here.

Three new interviews (2 successful startups, 1 failed one) and many curated resources for entrepreneurs.

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interviews & news 📢

🏝 Growing an online co-working to €5k/mo. All using no-code tools and spending $0 on paid advertising. Focused on Spanish and Latin American entrepreneurs and freelancers, SinOficina has become a huge subscription business running online events, co-living experiences and more. Here's their bootstrapping story.​

💀 This founder was too early in the eBook market. And couldn't make it - user's adoption was slow, competing with Amazon was impossible and lacking a "ship it fast" mindset complicated things even more. Nowadays, the founder is running various successful startups. Here's their failure story.​

💺 Making $100k/mo selling "active" chairs. QOR360 spent months designing and building them, with the goal of preventing back pain, which can happen when sitting on ergonomic chairs. In the last two years, they've grown from $100k/year to +$1M. Here's their growth story.​

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what I'm reading 👀

​A Reddit AMA done by the founder of Photopea, an online Photoshop clone that's making around $1M/year (and the discussion on Hacker News).

​This list of 6 productized service business models and +50 examples of services implementing each of these.

​An interesting case-study on how Infinity made +$70k in 10 days through a life-time deal.

​This great talk and article from Des Traynor, Intercom's co-founder, on how to hire and scale startup teams.

​A list of 19 tactics to solve the chicken-and-egg problem when starting a marketplace.

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Let me know if you have any questions!

Cheers,

Nico

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