You Should Learn From Their $100K Failure. They Did. – with René J. Pinnell & Eric Katerman

René J. Pinnell and Eric Katerman, Hurricane Party, Failure, Mobile Apps

What can you learn from failure?

Joining me are two founders who say they blew through $100,000 of investors money and burned 12 months of their lives when they created Hurricane Party, a mobile app for spontaneous get-togethers.

René J. Pinnell & Eric Katerman then took what they learned from that experience and created Forecast, a fun & simple way for friends to share where they’re going.

René J. Pinnell and Eric Katerman

Hurricane Party

René J. Pinnell & Eric Katerman are the creators of Hurricane Party, a mobile app for spontaneous get-togethers and Forecast, a fun & simple way for friends to share where they’re going.

 

Andrew: Three messages before we get started; first, you might have noticed that many sites are using video, here it is on SnapEngage underneath the ‘Free Trial’ button. You might have noticed they are using video to increase conversions, here it is on Freelancer.com. What do you do if you want to try video on your site, but you do not have production capabilities in-house? You go to Revolution-Productions, that’s the company that created the two videos I showed you and many, many others as you can see on their portfolio site. Go to Revolution-Productions.com, talk to them about having your custom video created.

Second, if you need an online store, who do you turn to? Of course, you turn to Shopify. What happens when your friends need stores? The people at Shopify know that if you are listening to Mixergy, you are the influencer that all of your friends turn to when they have questions like, what platform should they build their stores on? They are...

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