An Open Casket For EventVue, The Startup That Raised $1/2 Million And Recently Closed – With Josh Fraser
If you want to meet one of the heros behind the work I do at Mixergy, watch this interview with Josh Fraser, the entrepreneur whose company recently folded. Why is he a hero? Because he’s talking publicly about what he learned from his experience and helping you understand how you can build a stronger company. Anyone can brag about how smart they are after things go well, but the most useful business lessons often go down with the entrepreneurial ship. Not this time!
As you’ll see in this program, Josh and his co-founder decided to create what they call an “open casket” for their startup, but what makes his openness even more useful is the level of analysis that they did about what happened as they went from idea, to funding, to shuttering their business.
Josh Fraser is a software engineer and the co-founder of EventVue, which used to build online communities for conferences in order to improve conference networking.
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Andrew: Hey everyone it’s Andrew Warner, founder of mixergy.com home of the ambitious upstart, and the interview you are about to watch will explain to you my reason for being why I even do interviews like this. Before I even talk about this interview, before I even introduce you to Josh Fraser, the person who I’m here to talk to, I want to tell you about a time where a buddy of mine was laughing at some guy at a bar. He said, “I was...
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