🎉 In this video, I'll be explaining how to deal with SaaS failure & bounce back after your SaaS doesn’t work out. I’ll cover some philosophy, some anecdotal evidence from 5+ failures & give you the tools to recover from failure & build a better SaaS the 2nd time around (or the 100th time around).
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This guide explains how to recover from failure in SaaS, and how to do good post-mortems to come back stronger:
→ Principles from philosophers on how to deal with failure
→ Understanding how to conduct meaningful post-mortems & learn from the mistakes of your past SaaS products
→ How to turn your failure into money & a personal brand
✔️ Timestamps:
02:32 Toxic positivity & failing fast
03:43 Doing a post-mortem of a failed SaaS product
06:20 The Five ‘Whys’ and how to bounce back with infinite knowledge
07:48 Wisdom from the Wreckage & Contextual vs. Universal Mistakes
08:50 Nassim Taleb’s Antifragility & recovering from SaaS implosion
09:46 The Pivot Paradox & how to do a Phoenix Rise
11:42 Failure Scaffolds & how to fail at almost everything & still win
13:11 Rebuilding with Strategic Foresight
15:55 Failure Debt as Leverage & how to use failure to make money
17:57 When to persist vs. when to abandon a failing SaaS product
21:21 Crafting a personal philosophy & how to achieve everything you want
24:11 Closing the Loop: the Infinite Game of failure & success
🖐️ About me:
I'm Olly & I build B2B SaaS.
I built & exited Response AI: an outreach tool helping agencies, startups & sales reps book 3X more meetings with AI Video Outreach.
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