Coinbase founder shares the most important lesson from his startup failure before Coinbase
Brian started a tutoring website in college, helping students find tutors.
He charged a 10% fee on all payments.
It worked well at first, but soon, people
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Hey I am on Medial • 4m
Bro most founders don’t have years to tinker with a free product while working a cushy Airbnb job so thanks for the cool lesson but not everyone can afford to wait for the money.
Are founders in Bay area generally smarter then Indian founders? Why don’t we see first-of-a-kind ideas in India? Everything seems to have existed in SF years ago.
Founders, what’s the biggest mistake you made while building your startup, and what lesson did it teach you?
I believe mistakes teach us more than anything else—drop your insights in the comments and share some “real” knowledge!
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Chandra Aditya
Entrepreneur • 4m
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Why companies like Deepseek are game changers...
Here goes with the explaination of great companies by great founders why innovation in your stack of the whole business becomes crucial.
Wai
"Bro I wanna start a startup."
Cool. But do you...
Reply to messages late?
Miss deadlines?
Wait for "perfect ideas"?
Need constant motivation?
Ghost your friends when tired?
Then you don’t want a startup.
You want a shortcut to validation.
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Sourav Mishra
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Codestam Technologies • 1m
In 2012, Airbnb was bleeding money.
Investors weren’t interested.
The media called it a “stupid idea.”
Who in their right mind would let strangers sleep in their home?
Founders were broke.
So broke they sold custom cereal boxes during the U.S. elect
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Brian Armstrong explains how he built Coinbase on nights and weekends while working at Airbnb
Most aspiring founders struggle to find time for their startups.
Brian Armstrong, co-founder of Coinbase, faced the same challenge.
But instead of wait
Deepinder Goyal didn’t quit his job to start Zomato.
He built it as a side project.
Back in 2008, while working at Bain & Company, he noticed his colleagues wasted too much time searching for restaurant menus.
So he uploaded scanned menus online.
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Saket Sambhav
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ADJUVA LEGAL® • 3d
From pushing carts to running a $3.4B cybersecurity firm.
Brian Murphy didn’t just build ReliaQuest - he bet everything on it.
– Left a stable job
– Lost all initial deals in 40 days
– Took a second mortgage, maxed out credit cards
– Didn’t p