Airbnb, now worth ~$100 billion, was rejected by 7 investors in 2007.
Not because it was a bad idea, but because VCs reject 99% of startups.
Lesson: If ALL your plans depend on VC funding rather than customer funding, you are already fighting 99% failure.
Hey everyone! 🎉 I'm sharing the first-ever pitch deck of Airbnb. If this post gets 10 likes and 5 comments, I'll drop the next one! Want the full PDF? Just DM me! 📩💡
Here is the information -
Airbnb is one of the world's largest marketplaces for
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Deepasnhu Chail
Stealth • 6m
Out-of-the-Box Hustle - Clever Tricks Startups Used to Beat the Odds and Make It Big
Airbnb
In 2008,during the financial crisis, Airbnb was struggling to raise funds. The founders got creative and started selling novelty cereal boxes called "Obama
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Jagpreet Singh
Stealth • 2m
Many people on this platform asking for the opinion on their startup & talk with you to know more about what they can add on their startup. After all the conversation they asking for the favour to upvote them. isn't this look immatureness in the peop
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Mehul Fanawala
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The Clueless Company • 5m
Did you know?
Dropbox was never meant to be a cloud storage company!
Their FIRST concept: Synchronizing files between multiple computers offline ➡️ FAILURE
THEN they pivoted: Focused on cloud storage and seamless file sharing ➡️ SUCCESS!
Lesson:
Entrepreneurial mindset ☘️
↳ When you're around people, you learn how to initiate conversations and communicate effectively—skills that are crucial when pitching to investors or selling your products/services to customers.
↳ When you participate i
"Nokia's Iphone Killer helped kill itself "
Billions To Bankruptcy #2
Most Selling Mobile phone to Failure(Nokia)
In 1998, Nokia was the fast selling mobile brands globally.Nokia’s profit was about 4 billion in 1999.
In 2007 Apple came up with iP
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Sairaj Kadam
Stealth • 3m
Understanding Equity Funding for New Businesses
Hello everyone,
Let's talk about equity investment today, a crucial component of startup funding. Startups often use this strategy to accelerate growth and broaden their customer base. So, what exactl
Facebook Ran Pre-REVENUE for 5-6 years ‼️
Meaning, for 5-6 years they didn't sell anything to their customers and made 0 sales. How ? Funding. But why? Because It was creating a category from scratch and was revolutionary back then.
It was backed
𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗪𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗪𝗿𝗼𝗻𝗴: 𝗪𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗗𝗼𝘂𝗯𝘁𝗻𝘂𝘁?🧐
A good idea makes no sense if you can't monetize it. Founded in 2016, Doubtnut was a brilliant idea solving student problems in a way no other edtech in India was doing.
The concept for the
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Mehul Fanawala
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The Clueless Company • 3m
8 lessons 99 percent of people learn way too late in life:
1. Time is your most precious resource.
2. Your network is your net worth.
3. Health is wealth—invest in it early.
4. Failure is just feedback; embrace it.
5. Kindness always comes back arou