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The Project Roots and Wings podcastRelationship Roundtable Episode 5: The Art of Creating a Solid Foundation With Perry and Amaedi OgwucheToday Scott and Emily welcome two amazing friends to the podcast. Perry and Amaedi are a powerful duo. Scott and Emily had to sit back during several moments of this podcast and catch their breath. Perry and Amaedi share simple, practical, and duplicatable principles that they utilized to build a solid foundation for a lifelong commitment. A few of the principles you will hear throughout this episode are HUMILITY, HONESTY, VISION, and BOUNDARIES. You will love this episode for the beautiful way that these two tell their story. Perry and Amaedi are elevators. Everyone that they come in contact leaves b...2021-06-251h 16
Lessons From A Failed StartupWill investors invest in a founder who has had a failed startup? w/Nathan Lustig of Magma PartnersNathan 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-132/2021-02-1635 minLessons From A Failed StartupThe importance of building your company for customers and not investors w/Praful MathurPraful 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/2021-02-0352 minLessons From A Failed StartupGetting back to the workforce after shutting down a company w/Ayush Kumar of Vitrix HealthAyush Kumar shares his experience with shutting his company and trying to get back into the workforce afterwards. LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/akumar0630/2021-01-2644 minLessons From A Failed StartupShutting down one company and getting an acquisition offer the next day w/Peer RichelsenPeer 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-hire2021-01-201h 02Lessons From A Failed StartupWhy Glio, the first Latin American company in YC shut down with João De PaulaJoão 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. 2021-01-1258 minLessons From A Failed StartupShutting down a growing business at it's peak with Gaurav Maken of Mylk GuysGaurav 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/gauravmakenhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/gaurav-maken/2021-01-0545 minLessons From A Failed StartupThe story of YCombinator's GoScale (Heroku for pHp) and why it failed, with Co-founder Colin HayhurstColin 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 t...2020-12-2946 minLessons From A Failed StartupThe importance of co-founder relationships and the stigma behind failure w/Diederik AlersDiederik Alers an indie hacker, talks about his experience and learnings from his co-founder relationships, how he rebuilt confidence again after things didn't work out with his startups and the importance of acknowledging little wins. Connect with Diederik on Twitter @https://twitter.com/DDRK30LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/diederikdalers/2020-12-2240 minLessons From A Failed StartupBeing okay with the fact that your startup idea might be a bad idea and the importance of a good networkRenji 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/RenjiBijoyLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/renjibijoy/2020-12-1551 minLessons From A Failed StartupHaving a great idea and $1million and still needing to shut down. Discussing founder market fit w/Pranshu of PrayasPranshu, co-founder of Prayas Analytics- the google analytics for retail stores talks about the importance of founder market fit. He discusses his experience with shutting down Prayas after not being able to get any "real" customers even though they had money in the bank. Discusses how it was for him to get back out there after shutting down his company. You can connect with Pranshu on Twitter: @pranshu_m2020-12-0840 minLessons From A Failed StartupLearning from multiple failed ideas before building a multimillion dollar business with John Coogan of SoylentJohn Coogan, co-founder and former CTO of Soylent shares his story publicly for the first time about his failures before Soylent. 2020-12-0148 minLessons From A Failed StartupFake traction and the fear of failing with Kristen Fang, co-founder of StrattyX (TechCrunch Disrupt & YCombinator)Kristen Fang, previous co-founder of StrattyX, a trading interface that allowed you set up sophisticated “if-this-then-that” rules and execute orders on the stock market, talks about her experience with shutting down the company after being in the top 4 of Tech Crunch disrupt 2019 and midway through YCombinators Winter batch of 2020. 2020-11-2447 minLessons From A Failed StartupMoveLoot raised $22m & shut down 3 years later. Here's the story w/co-founder Shruti ShahMoveLoot was an online market place to buy and sell used furniture. They were part of YCombinator's winter 2014 batch. MoveLoot experienced a lot of growth and expanded to multiple cities including NY and LA. They raised multiple rounds of funding summing up to $22m, but ultimately the company had to shut down. Perry dives deep to learn what happened from co-founder Shruti Shah and draw out lessons learned. 2020-11-1748 minLessons From A Failed StartupThe story of YCombinator's Dropleaf (Netflix for video games) and why it failed, with Co-founder Vikram Rangraj (CAO @ Rize presently)Vikram Rangraj and his co-founder had a really awesome idea to build Dropleaf, a video game subscription service for all you can play video games. Essentially Netflix for video games. They got into the prestigious YCombinator in 2017 and had to shut down only 2 years later. Vikram is currently the Chief Academic Officer at Rize Education and he shared his experience of building and shutting down Dropleaf in 2017.Twitter: https://twitter.com/VRangrajLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/vikram-rangraj/2020-11-1154 minLessons From A Failed StartupLaunch EpisodeIntroducing Lessons From A Failed Startup Podcast. Perry Ogwuche gives a brief intro about the podcast and briefly describes his experience with his failed startup.2020-10-2905 min