#1938 - Failure Friday: “My app kept crashing during the big pitch…”
Side Hustle School
Chris Guillebeau
4.7 • 3.3K Ratings
🗓️ 22 April 2022
⏱️ 8 minutes
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Summary
In this week’s Failure Friday segment, we hear from the founder of iGoal.io, a project management tool. An early pitch to a major investor got off to a rough start.
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Side Hustle School features a new episode EVERY DAY, featuring detailed case studies of people who earn extra money without quitting their job. This year, the show includes free guided lessons and listener Q&A several days each week.
Show notes: SideHustleSchool.com
Email: team@sidehustleschool.com
Be on the show: SideHustleSchool.com/questions
Connect on Instagram: @193countries
Visit Chris's main site: ChrisGuillebeau.com
Read A Year of Mental Health: yearofmentalhealth.com
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| 0:00.0 | Sam Mendes presents Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens, an audible original drama. |
| 0:05.6 | The young gentleman's name would be... |
| 0:08.3 | Oliver. Oliver Twist. |
| 0:10.7 | ...with Brian Cox as Fagan. |
| 0:12.9 | What have you seen? Street boy. |
| 0:14.9 | Nicola Cochlan as Nancy and Daniel Caluia as Bill Sykes. |
| 0:19.3 | Oh, look at me like a hound of my noise! |
| 0:21.3 | I love you, baby! |
| 0:22.3 | ...with original music by Dan Gillespie Cells. |
| 0:25.7 | Subscription required, see audible.co.uk for terms. |
| 0:38.4 | I believe we can learn as much from failure as we can from success, |
| 0:41.2 | if not in fact much more. |
| 0:43.1 | It's with this principle in mind that I offer you a weekly segment |
| 0:46.1 | called failure Friday. Failure Friday is a collection of short stories about |
| 0:50.2 | mistakes, missteps, disasters, and of course failure. |
| 0:53.2 | All those things that go wrong, all those difficulties that come our way. |
| 0:56.8 | What do we learn from them, but also just how does it feel to kind of go through them? |
| 1:01.2 | And ultimately I think what we often discover is that it produces a sense of empowerment, |
| 1:06.2 | a sense of like, wow, that was tough, that was rough, but you know, |
| 1:10.3 | somehow I am able to get through it. |
| 1:12.0 | And often what's waiting on the other side is something much better, |
| 1:14.5 | or at least unexpected, or different. |
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