Lessons From A Failed Startup

Perry Ogwuche
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Perry Ogwuche who was previously a YC founder talks to other founders from the YC community and beyond with inactive companies to learn from their stories and unique experiences with running a business that they eventually had to shut down. Lessons from a failed startup podcast focuses on the stories of entrepreneurs who have started businesses that are among the 95% of businesses that don’t quite make it to the finish line.

  1. 02/16/2021

    Will investors invest in a founder who has had a failed startup? w/Nathan Lustig of Magma Partners

    Nathan Lustig, the managing partner of Magma Partners, a seed stage investment fund, shares his perspective on how he views founders with a failed startup under their belt. Learn more about Nathan: - Blog: https://www.nathanlustig.com/about/ - Twitter: https://twitter.com/nathanlustig - Magma Partners website: https://www.magmapartners.com/ - Crossing Boarders podcast with Nathan Lustig: https://latamlist.com/crossing-borders-with-nathan-lustig/ - Episode with Alejandro Freund: https://latamlist.com/alejandro-freund-the-path-to-shutting-down-a-latin-american-startup-ep-132/

    36 min

  2. 02/03/2021

    The importance of building your company for customers and not investors w/Praful Mathur

    Praful Mathur shares his experience with building a YCombinator company and loosing his  co-founders and biggest investor in the process.  https://www.linkedin.com/in/prafulmathur/

    53 min

  3. 01/26/2021

    Getting back to the workforce after shutting down a company w/Ayush Kumar of Vitrix Health

    Ayush Kumar shares his experience with shutting his company and trying to get back into the workforce afterwards.  LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/akumar0630/

    44 min

  4. 01/20/2021

    Shutting down one company and getting an acquisition offer the next day w/Peer Richelsen

    Peer and I talk about his experience with shutting down his company Mage and getting an acquisition offer for his newer company Lean Hire, from On Deck, the very next day, which was when we recorded this episode.  Peer now serves as the head of product at On Deck.  Lean Hire Acquisition: https://www.beondeck.com/post/lean-hire

    1h 3m

  5. 01/12/2021

    Why Glio, the first Latin American company in YC shut down with João De Paula

    João De Paula previous co-founder and CTO of Glio, the Amazon market place for Latin America shares his story about building the company and having to shut it down after 6 plus years of running it.

    59 min

  6. 01/05/2021

    Shutting down a growing business at it's peak with Gaurav Maken of Mylk Guys

    Gaurav Maken, previous co-founder of YCombinator's Mylk Guys shares his experience with building a growing business that he had to shut down at the height of their growth. Gaurav talks about the importance of focusing on what matters for your business and the importance of learning from the successes and failures of founders. https://twitter.com/gauravmaken https://www.linkedin.com/in/gaurav-maken/

    45 min

  7. 12/29/2020

    The story of YCombinator's GoScale (Heroku for pHp) and why it failed, with Co-founder Colin Hayhurst

    Colin Hayhurst a successful entrepreneur , and startup mentor, shares his experience in starting and shutting down the YCombinator backed company GoScale that he co-founded with James Cunningham.  The YC practice interview app, referred too, can be found here and the associated TechCrunch article here. Colin has a deep technical and commercial background with startups in engineering and applied physics software, web infrastructure, machine learning and search. He alo spent several years supporting and mentoring numerous technology startups. He is the CEO of Mojeek, the first privacy based and only web-crawler search engine that does not track.

    47 min

  8. 12/15/2020

    Being okay with the fact that your startup idea might be a bad idea and the importance of a good network

    Renji Bijoy, founder and CEO of ImmersedVR talk about his company AraJoy which pivoted to becoming Immersed. He talk about the process he went through to realize that his initial ideas was bad and that he needed to pivot. He also talks about his startup hack to finding good developers for cheap and more.  Connect with Renji: Twitter: https://twitter.com/RenjiBijoy LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/renjibijoy/

    51 min
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Perry Ogwuche who was previously a YC founder talks to other founders from the YC community and beyond with inactive companies to learn from their stories and unique experiences with running a business that they eventually had to shut down. Lessons from a failed startup podcast focuses on the stories of entrepreneurs who have started businesses that are among the 95% of businesses that don’t quite make it to the finish line.

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  • Creator
    Perry Ogwuche
  • Years Active
    2020 - 2021
  • Episodes
    14
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Copyright
    © 2021 Lessons From A Failed Startup
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