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Side Hustle School

#1756 - Failure Friday: Live Theater Rebrand Meets Global Pandemic

Side Hustle School

Chris Guillebeau

Entrepreneurship,, Side Hustle, Careers, Entrepreneurship, Business, Small Business

4.73.3K Ratings

🗓️ 22 October 2021

⏱️ ? minutes

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Summary

In this week’s Failure Friday segment, we hear from Matthew Bivens, the founder of a business that helps live theaters include captioning for people who are deaf or hard-of-hearing. An ambitious plan to rebrand for 2020 ran head-on into nationwide theatre closures, leaving the team out of work … at least for now.   

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0:34.9

Hey there, thank you for tuning in. My name is Chris Killabo. You're listening to

0:38.1

Side-Osel School. The daily podcast for more than 1700 and 50 days and counting.

0:44.0

All about helping you create a new source of income without quitting your job.

0:48.4

Now, today's episode is going out on Friday, so it is failure Friday.

0:52.1

Our collection of short stories about mistakes, missteps, disasters, and, of course, failure.

0:58.8

Just like our Thurback Thursday segment, you'll hear from Side-Osel School have struggled to get

1:02.4

something off the ground. Or if otherwise encountered a big challenge.

1:06.2

And today's short story features Matt Bivens from Chicago.

1:09.6

We told the successful story of his business caption point on Episode 543.

1:15.4

Marriage inspires theater captioning app and service. He'll tell you a bit more about that

1:20.1

in his update. And in the spring of 2020, they were beginning an all-new phase of operations.

1:25.2

This phase of operations would be bigger and better and, well, not at all,

1:29.4

compatible with a global pandemic. So Matt can tell the story better than me. I'll give

1:34.5

us a brief wrap up at the end.

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