How a major mistake almost cost Ryan Fyfe his company

Ryan Fyfe, Humanity, B2B, Failure, Mental Game, SaaS (software as a service)

How do you recover from a huge mistake that has the potential of sinking your company?

Ryan Fyfe is the Founder of Humanity, which is an easy-to-use online employee scheduling and workforce management software.

Ryan Fyfe was about to close a big funding round for Humanity when he discovered unethical practices that were going on that affected the company’s sales metrics.

Ryan Fyfe

Humanity

Ryan Fyfe is the Founder of Humanity, which is an easy-to-use online employee scheduling and workforce management software.

Andrew: Hey there, freedom fighters. You know me, my name is Andrew Warner. I’m the founder of Mixergy where I interview entrepreneurs about how they built their businesses. Recently, I was in Santiago, Chile, where I flew to run a marathon, 26.2 miles. Ryan, a lot of people consider like three-mile runs a marathon. A marathon actually has to be 26.2 miles. So, I did it. And I also flew there to interview entrepreneurs.

And in between, you know, first day was interview, last day was run the marathon. In between, I thought, I’m just going to live in a new city for a week and work out of a new city and man, was I distracted? The internet wasn’t exactly doing what I wanted to do. And for some reason, I didn’t go to a Regus office, I wanted, I guess, to experience day-to-day life there. It didn’t do it. I got distracted by all the interesting sites, by all the interesting people, by the fact that I want to practice my Spanish. I got very little...

Continue reading the transcript...