🎉 Hey Failories! It's Nico here.

This week I bring you an interview with the founder of Corebook, a brand guideline SaaS. Below that, three curated resources for startup founders.

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content 📚

💡 Building & growing a branding SaaS to a $1.2M company. This is the story of one of those B2B SaaS that everyone would like to be running, told by its co-founder and CEO, Janis Verzemnieks.

Janis first got into entrepreneurship in 2009, when he built a graphic design studio after teaching himself how to design. His second business came 7 years later, in 2016, when he co-founded and soon shut down a time management tool.

In 2018, Janis made his third jump into entrepreneurship. Aiming to disrupt how the design industry creates and uses brand guidelines, he built Corebook along with 2 co-founders.

By 2020, the three founders had registered Corebook as a legal entity, launched a public beta, and raised at a $1.2M valuation. Nowadays, the SaaS is growing 20% MoM and serving various unicorns, like GoPuff and Miro.

In the following 12 months, Corebook aims to keep growing its team and raise a new round. Check out our interview with Janis to learn how to build and grow a branding-related B2B SaaS to a $1.2M company.​

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what I'm reading 👀

​The inside story of Facebook Marketplace. Facebook Marketplace is the 2nd largest marketplace, only behind Amazon. Deb Liu led the team that pitched, built, launched and scaled Facebook Marketplace up to this point. In this article, she shares the whole story of the project.

​The "Hardcore Year" approach to $10k/month with Andrey Azimov. With only $3k runway, Andrey moved to Bali and launched the "Hardcore Year": He had one year to achieve $10k in MRR. In this podcast episode, he shares about the projects he built to hit this milestone.

​Building a $300,000 online course with Nat Eliason. Nat is the founder of Growth Machine, an SEO & content marketing agency. A few years ago, Nat built and sold $300k in an online course about Roam Research. In this interview, he shares the behind-the-scenes of this digital product.

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Nico

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