How long should you be willing to fail before giving up on a startup? – with Bridget Harris
Bridget Harris, You Can Book Me, Bootstrapping, Customer Acquisition, European Founder, Failure, International Founders, Mental Game, SaaS (software as a service), Traffic, Women Founders
How long are you willing to try and fail, again and again, before you give up on creating a profitable startup?
A lot of people would just try once and say, hey—this just doesn’t work. I’m going to move on and accept that this is not going to work.
Today’s guest didn’t do that. She built a product and couldn’t get a lot of users. Then she built another one that got users but no revenue. Finally, her third company was a hit and is growing. I invited her here to tell us how she did it.
Bridget Harris is the co-founder of YouCanBook.Me, an online scheduling tool in the UK.
Bridget Harris is the co-founder of YouCanBook.Me which is the fastest growing online scheduling tool in the UK.
Andrew: Hey there, freedom fighters. You know me. My name is Andrew Warner. I’m the founder of Mixergy.com. Been doing these interviews since 2008. I think I might be the originator. All right, that’s too much. There was one other person who was doing it. I copied the idea. And I’m so proud to have been doing this for over 1000 interviews with some of the world’s most proven entrepreneurs, and we do them in a way that allows you to learn from them so that you can build your business based on what they’ve learned.
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All right, so let me ask you this. As a listener of mine, how many times are you willing to try, fail, and try, and not get it to work before you give up on creating a profitable startup? And the...
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