A survival guide for near-failure

Rory O'Connor, Scurri

I invited today’s guest because he willing to talk about something that so few entrepreneurs want to talk about which is how freaking hard it is to start a company.

Rory O’Connor is the founder of Scurri which provides software that connects and optimizes the eCommerce ordering, shipping and delivery process.

I’m going to ask him how he built it up and how he survived after nearly running out of money so many times.

Rory O'Connor

Scurri

Rory O’Connor is the founder of Scurri which provides software that connects and optimizes the eCommerce ordering, shipping and delivery process.

Andrew: Hey there, freedom fighters. My name is Andrew Warner. I’m the founder of Mixergy where I interview entrepreneurs about how they built their businesses. I think what we don’t talk enough about as entrepreneurs is how freaking difficult it is. We talk about how great it is the worst, by the way, Rory Rory O’Connor is my guest here today.

Right? The worst is when entrepreneurs say you never have a boss, like if having a boss is so terrible, then what are you saying about your employees who work for you? Right.

Rory: Yeah.

I mean, this idea, you never have a boss, you always, there’s always somebody to report to you. You’ve got your stakeholders, uh, your employees, you’ve got your investors, you know, there’s always somebody that you’ve got to, that you’ve got to report to, uh, whoever, you know, you do have probably a lot more decisions, decisions that you can make.

So yeah, there is, there...

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