How I, Andrew Warner, Failed With FoundersMix – with Justin Mares

Andrew Warner, FoundersMix, Failure, System, Traffic

Today we have a role reversal. I’m going to be interviewed about one of my failed sites.

A few months ago, Justin Mares, co-author of Traction Book, called me up and asked why I shut down FoundersMix, a question and answer site I created for entrepreneurs.

I thought his questions were so insightful that they helped me understand myself better. So I invited him here to interview me for you.

Andrew Warner

FoundersMix

Andrew Warner is the founder of FoundersMix, a question and answer site created for entrepreneurs, and Mixergy.com, home of the ambitious upstart.

Andrew: Hey there, freedom fighters. You know by now my name is Andrew Warner, and I am the founder of Mixergy, home of the ambitious upstart. You know all that, but what you don’t know is that today we’ve got a role reversal. I’m going to be interviewed about one of my failed sites. The whole shebang will be sponsored by my buddy, Scott Edward Walker of Walker Corporate Law, but I’ll tell you about him later.

Here’s what I’m going to tell you about now. A few months ago, Justin Mares called me up, and he asked me about why I shut down FoundersMix.com, the question-and-answer site that I created for entrepreneurs. I thought his questions were just so interesting and so insightful, that they even helped me understand my own issue better, my own site better, so I invited him here to talk about how he did it, and actually not to talk about how he did it, but to recreate what he did in that conversation that we had, which was...

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