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.
Startup Survival Story - 1
Airbnb: Turning Rejection into Opportunity
When Brian Chesky, Joe Gebbia, and Nathan Blecharczyk founded Airbnb, they struggled to find investors. They were rejected by more than 20 venture capitalists. To survive, they s
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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Kanishk Raj
Stealth • 1m
The Seeds of Success (Story)
Failure is a word we often dread, but it’s a universal experience shared by everyone who has ever achieved greatness. From failed relationships to unsuccessful businesses, from poor exam results to rejected ideas—failur
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Deepasnhu Chail
Stealth • 8m
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 • 4m
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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Gaurav Prajapati
Stealth • 29d
The Fear of Taking the 1% Path
Why do people fear doing what 99% of others avoid?
Because when you choose a different path, failure becomes louder, and criticism sharper.
Society asks, "Why didn’t you follow the safe route? Why try to stand out
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Vishu Bheda
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Medial • 1m
In 1975, a Kodak engineer built the world’s first digital camera.
It could have changed photography forever.
But Kodak dismissed it, saying:
“That’s nice—don’t tell anyone.”
What happened next became one of the biggest business mistakes in history
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