🎉 Hey Failories! It's Nico here.

This week I bring you two new interviews with startup founders, +70 new lists of failed startups organized by country, industry and cause of failure, and 3 curated resources.

Let's start!

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content 📚

💰 Pre-selling $550k in one programming course. CSS for JavaScript Developers is an online course that combines videos, articles, interactive widgets and mini-games to teach CSS.

Josh, its creator, wanted to validate the course's idea, so he ran a pre-selling campaign. It ended up bringing him $550k in revenue. Here's how to do pre-sales to validate and fund your digital products.​

Btw, if you're interested in using a similar strategy to validate your product, service or software ideas, you should check the course I'm working on: "Pre-Sell to Validate".

📈 Making +$15k/mo helping businesses sell more on Amazon. Akhil is the founder of this SaaS platform, called Xena Intelligence, whose clients make over $250k/mo selling on Amazon.

The business has a subscription-based monetization model, with a fixed fee + a percentage of the growth in sales they bring to their clients. Here's how to build a SaaS on top of another platform.​

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🔴 Discover the financial potential of your startup. Don’t build a product nobody actually wants. Learn all the ways you can validate if your ideas can actually become a business. Watch the Free Videos →

📢 Seeking founders who have applied to accelerators. Headway, Failory's sponsor, is doing some research and they want to learn more about the problems/priorities of startup founders that have recently applied to startup accelerators.

If you’d be willing to hop on a 30-minute Zoom call, Headway would be happy to send you a Starbucks gift card for your time! If you're interested and live in North America, please fill out the form below (it's super quick!).​

☠️ +70 lists of failed startups organized by country, industry & cause of failure. We've interviewed +150 failed startup founders and have written +120 articles analyzing failed businesses. We turned all this data into listicle articles.

​Here are all of the articles. I particularly recommend you to check the article about failed startups from Silicon Valley.​

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what I'm reading 👀

​Nathan Barry's entrepreneurial journey. Nathan is the founder of ConvertKit, one of the biggest email marketing tools. CK has made $84M in total sales and it's a huge success. But prior to this, Nathan built 10 other products, most of which failed.

​Adverse effects of going viral on TikTok. Lots of apps have gone viral on TikTok, getting thousands of users. Soon after, the growth falls and the users become inactive. This Twitter thread covers some better ways to use TikTok to promote apps.

​How Courtland Allen built Indie Hackers. IH is the reason why many founders, including me, have built our businesses. In this podcast episode, Courtland, IH's founder, shares his entrepreneurial journey and the story of how he built and sold IH.

That's all for this week. Let me know if you have any questions!

Cheers,

Nico

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