🎉 Hey Failories! It's Nico here.

This week I bring you two interviews with MarketMuse and Headway's founders and three curated resources for entrepreneurs.

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content 📚

💰 Raising $8M to build an AI-generated content SaaS. Jeff Coyle is co-founder at MarketMuse, a content strategy and intelligence platform that helps marketers create high-quality content quickly.

They were one of the first tools in their market. Over the last 8 years, they have raised $8M and are currently scaling up their marketing and sales teams. Here's how to build a SaaS on a new market.​

A few weeks ago, we interviewed the founders of CopyAI, another AI-generated content tool. Here's their story.​

⚙️ Bootstrapping a startup agency to 40 employees. Headway has been Failory's sponsor for the last 6 months. This week, we interviewed one of their founders to learn more about their journey.

In only 6 years, they grew their team by x10, going from 4 members to 40. Here's how to build a startup agency.​

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🔴 TODAY: What Does Product-Market Fit Feel Like? Craig Zingerline is a 6-time founder who has helped dozens of companies scale their growth. Join a discussion with Craig as he shares what makes some startups fail and how others find success through product-market fit. Register for the Live Stream →

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what I'm reading 👀

​$35M selling dog ramps. Ramon van Meer bought a dog ramp business for $300k and scaled it to a 7-figure business. In this viral thread, he shares why he bought the company and how he scaled it and analyzes whether it is better to buy a business or build one from scratch.

​The secret sauce of valuable service businesses. To be loved for your middleman role between customers and your employees, you must be obsessed with creating more value than you mark up. This article shares an interesting approach called "value-adding infrastructure".

​How to sell a micro SaaS. This article shares insights about the three steps of the selling process: listing, diligence and transfer & support. It also lists many marketplaces and micro PE companies.

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

Cheers,

Nico

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