Fail Series: “I was losing $1 million every week” – with James Altucher

James Altucher, Comeback, Failure, Lifestyle Business

This is the first in my series of interviews with entrepreneurs who are willing to be open with me about their failures.

Don’t read another word of this intro. Just go and download or watch this interview with James Altucher right now.

Once you finish this interview I promise you’ll learn something that will help you both avoid a few mistakes in your life and show you how to get out of the ones you can’t avoid.

James Altucher

James Altucher is an entrepreneur and venture capitalist who has launched and sold three separate businesses. Of course he does this in addition to daytrading, futures trading, arbitrage, value investing, private equity investing, and whatnot. He’s also an amazing writer.

 

Andrew: Before we get started, have you seen these? Here’s a box, right there on Wistia. Here’s another box on InDinero’s website. They’re all over the place. They’re from this company, Olark. Here’s another one. And the reason these companies have the box up on their website is so their customers can have chats with them in real time. Now imagine what a confused customer’s going through, and the frustration they’re having with the website. And then, boom! They have the ability to chat with the founder, with someone at the company who cares and can help them.

Beyond solving their problem and giving you a way to help your customers, it’ll also give you insight into what your customers are going through when they’re on your site in real time. Olark, I’m making you aware of them so you’ll add them to your website and be able to give your customers incredible support and so you can learn from them. Once...

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