🎉 Hey Failories! It's Nico here.

This week I bring you two new interviews with successful startup founders + a 14,000 startups database we launched this week + 4 curated resources.

Friendly reminder that my new course, "Pre-Sell to Validate", currently includes a free 1-hour consultancy call (only 4 spots available).

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content 📚

📈 5 figures/month with an employee scheduling SaaS. Tadeus is the founder of Aplano, a tool that covers time-tracking, vacation management, reports, availabilities, communication, and more for businesses with up to 500 employees.

They are continuously growing, particularly through SEO, though they have tried ads and cold outreach in the past. Recently, they surpassed five figures in monthly revenue. Here's how to grow a SaaS in the HR industry.​

🦠 COVID completely stopped their business, but they survived. Ombori creates interactive apps that change the way people behave when they’re in stores, airports, or other places. When COVID hit, all of their projects were put on hold as everyone got lockdown.

In this interview, Ombori's founder explains how they managed to adapt their product to the circumstances and survived through the pandemic. Here's how Ombori dealt with COVID.​

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🔴 What’s the best way to do customer research? What kinds of questions do you ask? How should you ask them? Learn how you can get clarity on what to do next with your product and marketing efforts. Improve Your Research Process →

🚀 +500 articles listing +14,000 startups. During the past weeks, we've been building the largest database of startups from all over the world and creating articles of the top startups in different countries, cities, and industries.

All of the articles will have been published in 10-15 days, but you can already find many of them here​.​

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what I'm reading 👀

​Patreon's CEO shares his most epic failures. Earlier this year, Patreon raised $155M at a $4B valuation. This startup is probably Jack Conte's biggest success. However, prior to Patreon, Jack went through a series of personal and career failures, which he shares in this great talk.

​Building a successful company is fucking hard. This is another story of dozens of failures before a success. During his first 3 years as an entrepreneur, James Clift started and shut down various ventures; it was only in year 4 when his business started to generate consistent revenue and begin growing.

​Crash course in capital. Fundraising is hard; if done wrong, you might spend 4-6 months focused on other things more than your customers and product (which should be your focus) and get 0 results. In this guide, the author shares some personal lessons from raising funds at his startup.

​Random startup failure cause generator. Find out random reasons why your startup might fail along with case studies of startups that have failed due to that reason.

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