Search-to-Phone’s Co-Founder On Why His Company Failed – with Sebastian Replanski

Sebastian Replanski, Present Online Now, Failure, Mental Game

To help you learn from his experience, Sebastian Replanski did a very open interview about why his TechStars-backed company, Search-to-Phone, failed.

One of the reasons I started Mixergy is that books on business success often cheerlead for the winners, but neglect to study failed companies. As a result, they give you only half of an understanding.

Sebastian is already putting to use what he learned at Search-to-Phone to launch Present Online Now, a web-based presentation service that uses a clever technical approach to undercut his competition.

Sebastian Replanski

Present Online Now

Sebastian Replanski is currently working on Present Online Now, a web-based Webinar Service.

 

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