🎉 Hey Failories! It's Nico here.

Three new interviews today (1 failed startup, 2 successful ones) and many interesting links for founders.

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interviews & news 📢

💀 Raised €250k but failed to find Product-Market Fit. That's the story of Hello Tyro, a platform that matched students with internship opportunities in Belgian startups.

Revenue reached €4k MRR at their top, but they were burning more than what they made, so they eventually ran out of cash and had to file for bankruptcy.

Pierre, Co-Founder and COO of Hello Tyro, came to Failory to share the story of their failure.

🛠 From a screwed MVP to a $8k/mo marketplace. All bootstrapped, while being ~20 years old.

Dominic's journey with MentorCruise (which I use and love) is amazing. He's a great example of persistence and astuteness at the moment of choosing an acquisition channel. Here's his growth story.​

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🥊 Building a six-figure business in the fitness industry. What started as a blog has become a lifestyle company focused on helping people push their limits and do the impossible.

Starting from an audience has been great part of Impossible's success. Here's their whole story.​

🚀 We're soon launching many content projects on Failory. Let me list them:

• Database of pitch decks. 2-3 weeks from now.
• Google Cemetery. 2-3 weeks from now.
• Database of unicorn companies. 4-5 weeks from now.
• Online course. +2 months from now.

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what I'm reading 👀

​This huge analysis of Gumroad's features, business model, valuation and more. Gumroad is probably the most impressive bootstrapping story out there.

​"What You'll Wish You'd Known" from Paul Graham in 2005. It's a talk he prepared for high-school students.

​10 factors to consider when evaluating marketplaces. This part kept me thinking: "Great marketplaces... leverage the connective tissue to offer the consumer a user experience that simply was not possible before the arrival of this new intermediary".

​10 predictions about the Creator Economy for the next decade, from the founders of Podia.

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That's all for this week. I hope you enjoyed it.

Let me know if you have any questions!

Cheers,

Nico

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