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Side Hustle School

#1826 - Failure Friday: Self-Guided London Food Tours Fail to Excite

Side Hustle School

Chris Guillebeau

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

4.73.3K Ratings

🗓️ 31 December 2021

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

Happy New Year’s Eve! In this week’s Failure Friday segment, we hear from Jennifer Earle, founder of Chocolate Ecstasy Tours. With her guided tour business in full swing, she decides to start a self-guided version called Taste Tripper. Unfortunately, this expansion proves to be unsustainable. 

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0:00.0

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0:35.0

Happy New Year's Eve! Happy New Year's Eve! Happy almost New Year's.

0:39.6

It is the last episode of the year. You're listening to it in the future. You might be in another year,

0:44.4

which is crazy. What a year it's been. I am so grateful to be able to bring you these stories,

0:48.8

episodes, updates, and so on, all throughout the year. So thank you once again for being part

0:53.1

of Side Usal School. And for this last episode of the year, it happens to be coming out on a Friday,

0:58.0

which means our segment today is Failure Friday. A collection of short stories about mistakes,

1:03.2

missteps, disasters, and of course, failure. Just like our Throwback Thursday segment,

1:07.4

you'll hear directly from side users who have struggled to get something off the ground.

1:10.6

They're going to tell you a short story of something that went very wrong.

1:13.9

Now today's short story features Jen Earl, originally from Melbourne, Australia,

1:17.8

but now living in the UK. We told the successful story of her London chocolate

1:21.7

tours on episode 194 long, long ago. That business has done fabulously well. But as you'll hear,

1:27.9

a new business she started called Taste Tripper struggled quite a bit in getting off the ground.

1:32.5

Back she finally made the brave decision to close it. So she'll bring us that story. I'll come back

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