When to Move On From A Failed Startup & The Dangers of Scaling Too Early
Building a startup is hard enough as it is. But what happens when a war breaks out in a country where you have 25 team members?
In this talk from MicroConf Growth US 2022, Andrew Amann, CEO of NineTwoThree Studio, shares how he supports 25 team members based in Ukraine while also keeping the business running.
There are powerful lessons around leadership, resilience, and pivoting in this talk.
Here's what we're covering this week:
How to know when it is time to move on from a failed startup
Running a SaaS company abroad
The dangers of scaling your SaaS too early
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6 Signs It's Time To Move On from a Failed Startup
Choosing to close a business is never easy, but it may be time for a fresh start. Here are 6 signs it's time to move on from a failed startup.
🎙 New On Startups For The Rest Of Us
In episode 639, Rob Walling chats with Andrew Berkowitz, the co-founder and CEO of Suggestion Ox, about the secret sauce to building happy, high-performing teams and how we as founders need to unlearn some of the strict policies that have been in place for hundreds of years.
Suggestion Ox is a feedback platform that helps HR teams build candid communication between leadership and employees. And before that, Andrew co-founded a sports management platform that was acquired in 2021.
🚀 3 SaaS Resources To Check Out From Around The Web
When you launch the v2 of your product, and it generates $40k+ in sales in a month, the next logistical step is to scale up, right? Or maybe not. Here is a cautionary tale for why scaling up after a launch might not be the best thing for a SaaS company.
Curious about what it is like to run a SaaS company abroad as an expat? Listen to this conversation between two SaaS founders talking about the pros and tradeoffs.
If video marketing is part of your strategy, here is a statistic you might want to pay attention to. TikTok surpassed Youtube as the number one entertainment platform for users under 35.
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