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2/18/2021
13 : 34
Lack of Focus Made this $6k/Mo Startup Shut Down
Interview with Ben Tossell, from Makerpad 🎉 Hey Failories! It's Nico here, with a lot of news. First of all, last week Failory acquired Phoenix Down, which used to publish interviews with failed
2/13/2021
5 : 7
Launching & Growing a SaaS after 2 Years of Development
An interview with founder of Visual Sitemaps 🎉 Hey Failories! It's Nico here. January was an okay month for Failory. Here's a monthly report I wrote yesterday - I think some of you'll enjoy
2/4/2021
11 : 34
Growing a food-tech startup to $10K/mo and shutting it down
Interview with the founder of Melon 👋 Hey Failories! It's Nico over here. Yesterday I published an engaging interview with the founder of a food startup called Melon, which grew to $10k/mo in the
1/28/2021
11 : 34
Bootstrapping a privacy-protection service to $3000 MRR
Interview with SimpleLogin's founder 👋 Hey Failories! It's Nico over here. This week I published an interesting interview with the founder of a privacy-friendly service, which are on the rise
1/21/2021
11 : 34
Raising $5.5M to Build the Community Platform for Creators
Interview with Andrew, Circle's founder 🎉 Hey Failories! It's Nico here. This week, I started working on a new project within Failory called the Google Cemetery, a place where we'll analyze
1/15/2021
2 : 26
Raising $300K to Build the Lambda School for LATAM
Interview with Martin, founder of Henry (YC-backed) 🎉 Hey Failories! It's Nico here. Today, I'm really happy to be featuring the story of a startup founder from my country, Argentina. As some
1/7/2021
11 : 34
10 Years into Selling Info Products to Creative People
An interview with Alex Hillman, from Stacking the Bricks 🎉 Happy new year, Failories! It's Nico over here. I hope you had a great time with your family & friends. Many people have spent the
12/24/2020
16 : 44
Growing a Marketplace for Activity Centers to £1M/mo
An interview with the founder of eola 👋 Hey Failories! It's Nico over here. This is probably the last newsletter of the year. Thanks so much for supporting the project throughout 2020, making it
12/17/2020
11 : 34
Why Did Quibi Fail?
7 reasons why Quibi went from $2B to 0. 👋 Hey Failories! It's Nico over here. Lots of you have requested me to publish an article analyzing Quibi's shut down, one of the most spectacular
12/10/2020
15 : 44
Bootstrapping a SaaS to $145,000/year in a competitive industry
+ giveaway of PMF eBook! 👋 Hey Failories! It's Nico over here. Last week, I partnered up with Dru Riley, founder of Trends.vc, to give away 50 copies of Failory's product-market fit eBook. If
12/4/2020
4 : 4
Entrepreneur Online courses: The best 31 (free & paid)
2 new articles + eBook's launch numbers 👋 Hey Failories! It's Nico over here. On Monday we launched Failory's product-market fit eBook. +100 sales were made and the feedback was amazing ;)
12/4/2020
3 : 5
A $15,000 failure in timing, branding, and lack of tools
1 interview, 1 article and news about Failory 👋 Hey Failories! It's Nico over here. It's December already! November was Failory's best month ever (around $4k in revenues, which is x2 of the
11/23/2020
10 : 4
The PMF eBook is finally here! 🚀
Get it 33% cheaper only today! 👋 Hey Failories, it's Nico. After 2.5 months of work, Failory's product-market fit eBook is finally here! I launched it an hour ago on Product Hunt. It's my
11/19/2020
16 : 34
Bootstrapping a SaaS to $4k/mo in a competitive market
2 interviews + eBook updates 👋 Hey Failories! It's Nico over here. Monday is the day we're finally launching our product-market fit eBook. It has already been sold 128 times, meaning $1181 in
11/17/2020
11 : 34
34% of startups fail due to lack of PMF
Updates and discount on our ebook. 👋 Hey Failories! It's Nico over here. For the last 2 months, we've been working on our eBook about product-market fit. We're finally launching it next
11/13/2020
6 : 46
From $40k/mo to $70k in debt - Why this advertising agency shut down
Interview + article + recommendation 👋 Hey Failories! It's Nico over here. Some weeks ago, I came up with the idea of turning Failory's newsletter into a curated newsletter for founders. I
10/29/2020
11 : 34
Bootstrapping a privacy-first Google Analytics to $4k/mo
SaaS success story + list of podcast for entrepreneurs 👋 Hey Failories! It's Nico over here. Last week, I asked you to click on a link if you wanted us to write about Quibi's shut down. It got
10/22/2020
11 : 34
+$6,000/mo automating video editing
Interview with a SaaS & article about hiring devs. 👋 Hey Failories! It's Nico over here. I have two content ideas. You have the power to decide if I work on them by clicking on the links on
10/19/2020
2 : 54
How we went from $1M raised and 100k users to shut down
YC's failed startups + 2 interviews. 👋 Hey Failories! It's Nico over here. Last week's article on Y Combinator failed startups completely blew up. It went viral on Hacker News and received
10/8/2020
18 : 24
Biggest Y Combinator failed startups
Two in-depth researches on YC and Shark Tank. 👋 Hey Failories! It's Nico over here. I've been looking forward to publishing today's articles for a long time. Both of them are incredible