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Steve Jobs on Failure
This is what Steve Jobs has to say about failing and this simple thing you need to do to get started.
Nicolaas Spivey
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I sold my app for $5 and Got Called Crazy—Here’s Why It Worked
Found out why this person sold their app for just $5 despite skeptics and read to know if their bold strategy paid off.
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How I wasted 3 years of my life on a SaaS app people didn't want
In 2019 I quit my comfy corporate job build an app to find healthy food whilst you're on the go. The idea was simple - A list of healthy food choices around you, wherever you are in the world. Think Deliveroo or Uber Eats but with only healthy choices. We
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How Jotform grew from 1k users to 25m
Find out how this person created Jotform and grew it from 1,000 users to 25 million.
How I grew my mobile app to 1.4 million downloads
I started developing the app in early 2017, well before the AI era, when mobile apps were at their peak popularity. My idea was to create an app for emotional and psychological support in the form of helpful articles and various quizzes, such as personality assessments and life satisfaction tests.
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3 Simple Categories of Success
If you have a bad product and good marketing - Many will buy it, but only once. If you have a good product and bad marketing - It will take a long time until people find out about it. If you have a good product and good marketing - That's
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How I launched my first saas and lessons learned
After 4 or 5 years of working for a company I was laid off last October. So, I thought this is a good time to get back into building my own products as I had good savings and could afford to take a year off. If nothing else, you learn
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How I bootstrapped a $40m company - Epic failures, successes, and heartaches
How I bootstrapped a $40m company overnight, and by overnight, I mean it took 11 YEARS and I SURE AS HELL didn’t build it by myself. Here’s my story, my epic failures, the successes, and the heartaches. 2010: I was 22 and worked at an engineering firm as
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How I launched my first SaaS and how it failed miserably
About two years ago, I had this “million dollar” idea of a SaaS. I’ve built it, launched it and failed miserably. Here is what happened. The idea The idea was simple. A wedding RSVP platform that allows users to create a landing page for their wedding then either send
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If only someone told me this before my 1st startup
1. Validate idea first. I wasted at least 5 years building stuff nobody needed. 2. Kill your EGO. It's not about me, but the user. I must want what the user wants, not what I want. 3. Don't chaise investors, chase users, and then investors will be chasing you. 4.
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I lost $300k on a project: 3 lessons I learned
My name is Igor, I'm 27 years old, I'm from Ukraine. I invested $300k in the project and closed it without earning anything. What did we do? In 2019 we made “Uber for plumbers.” Is your pipe leaking? Leave a request and the master will be there in 20 minutes.
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We Failed Such A Great idea
7 years ago, we started a startup to challenge Carta, we raised $1M, got our first 100 users, and tons of optimism. 6 years later we went bankrupt. In 2017 I was playing cageball in Oslo when I met my old friend, who said he just started a new startup,
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Don't Set Out to Make Money
It's very easy to get lost in day dreams of fancy cars, big houses, exotic places, and expensive things. How many of you think about products you can sell or services you can offer that will make a lot of money? Why not? If you can sell something or provide
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How to change your mindset from coder to entrepreneur in 9 steps
These are the 9 steps I’ve learned on how to become profitable as an entrepreneur who was previously a software engineer at Microsoft. The process reminds me of writing efficient code: 1. CODE: Understand the requirements ENTREPRENEUR: Understand your offer and targets 2. CODE: Strategize solutions given the available
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The 48 Laws of Power
Law 1 - Never Outshine the Master Always make those above you feel comfortably superior. In your desire to please or impress them, do not go too far in displaying your talents or you might accomplish the opposite – inspire fear and insecurity. Make your masters appear more brilliant than they
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A Guide to Being a Winner
I've been in this business for years, long enough to see people fail or succeed and draw my own conclusions as to why. I have friends who made fortunes in this business and others who basically flopped and played with IM like a hobby. Everyone wants to be a winner,