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A Startup Rollercoaster: How Lernin Games Failed to Dominate the Game-Based Learning Industry
TickCross
Education
Spain
Bad Business Model
Lernin Games
Jordi Miró
March 9, 2021
Turning a Failed Blog into a Multiple Six-Figure Business
TickCross
Education
United States
$25k-$100k/mo
Career Sidekick
Biron Clark
March 9, 2021
Starting a Dual-Sided Marketplace: The Struggle to Balance Supply and Demand
TickCross
Education
Hungary
Competition
Teacher Finder
Andrew Davison
March 3, 2021
Building a Multi-Million Dollar Company with Zero Industry Experience
TickCross
Health
Australia
+$500k/mo
The CareSide
Gareth Mahon
March 3, 2021
Transitioning from Desk Job to Building a $60k/mo Cleaning Business
TickCross
Services
United States
$25k-$100k/mo
DeluxeMaid
Finn Pegler
February 24, 2021
Building a Business While in High School: A 5-year journey full of learnings
TickCross
Education
United States
Bad Business Model
Formatically
Duncan Hamra
February 24, 2021
Building a Growth Agency that Doubles in Size Every Year
TickCross
Marketing
United States
No Data
NoGood
Mostafa ElBermawy
February 17, 2021
How Focusing on Many Fronts Made a $6k MRR Business Shut Down
TickCross
Education
United Kingdom
Lack of Focus
NewCo
Ben Tossell
February 17, 2021
Bootstrapping a privacy-protection service to $3000 MRR
TickCross
Software & Hardware
France
$0-$10k/mo
SimpleLogin
Son NK
December 31, 2020
Growing a Food Delivery Startup to $10K/mo and Shutting it Down
TickCross
Food & Beverage
United States
Lack of Experience
Melon
Kevin Wang
December 31, 2020
Building and Growing the Airbnb for Car Maintenance
TickCross
Transportation
New Zealand
No Data
My Auto Shop
Andy Bowie
December 31, 2020
Raising $5.5M to Build the Community Platform for Creators
TickCross
Software & Hardware
United States
No Data
Circle
Andrew Guttormsen
December 29, 2020
Raising $300K to Build the Lambda School for LATAM
TickCross
Education
Argentina
No Data
Henry
Martin Borchardt
December 29, 2020
10 Years into Selling Info Products to Creative People
TickCross
Education
United States
No Data
Stacking the Bricks
Alex Hillman
December 29, 2020
Launching and Growing a SaaS after 2 Years of Development
TickCross
Software & Hardware
Argentina
No Data
VisualSitemaps
Artur Maklyarevsky
December 29, 2020
Growing a Marketplace for Activity Centers to £1M/mo
TickCross
Travel
United Kingdom
+$500k/mo
eola
Daniel Steele
December 24, 2020
Building and Shutting Down a Startup in an Industry Hit Hard by COVID
TickCross
Health
Armenia
Failure to Pivot
Sofetch
Margaret Rostamian
December 16, 2020
Bootstrapping a SaaS to $145,000/Year in a Competitive Industry
TickCross
Analytics
Netherlands
$10k-$25k/mo
Linkody
François Mommens
December 10, 2020
The Downtrend of Uptrend: A $15,000 failure in timing, branding, and lack of tools
TickCross
Marketing
Singapore
Bad Marketing
Uptrend
Maverick Lim
December 3, 2020
How lack of focus meant $400k burnt and InoVVorX’s shut down
TickCross
Software & Hardware
India
Lack of Funds
InoVVorX
Maxim Dsouza
November 19, 2020
Bootstrapping a SaaS to $4k/mo in a competitive market
TickCross
Software & Hardware
Russia
$0-$10k/mo
Unicorn Platform
Alexander Isora
November 19, 2020
From $40k/mo to $70k in debt - Why this advertising agency shut down
TickCross
Social Media
United States
Mismanagement of Funds
Vulpine
Derric Haynie
November 11, 2020
Growing a SaaS-Related Paid Newsletter to $8k/mo in 4 Months
TickCross
Software & Hardware
United States
$0-$10k/mo
SoftwareIdeas
Kevin Conti
November 5, 2020
Bootstrapping a privacy-first Google Analytics alternative to $4k/mo
TickCross
Software & Hardware
Remote
$0-$10k/mo
Plausible
Marko Saric
October 26, 2020
Kamua: +$6,000/mo Automating Video Editing
TickCross
Software & Hardware
United Kingdom
$0-$10k/mo
Kamua
Paul Robert Cary
October 21, 2020
How we went from $1M raised and 100k users to shut down
TickCross
Social Media
United States
Mismanagement of Funds
Zapstream
Devan Sood
October 15, 2020
Turning a Personal Problem into a $100k/mo SaaS
TickCross
Software & Hardware
Pakistan
$100k-$500k/mo
RepairDesk
Usman Butt
October 15, 2020
Stronger U: Earning $600k/month teaching proper dieting
TickCross
Food & Beverage
United States
+$500k/mo
Stronger U
Mike Doehla
October 1, 2020
From $20k/mo to 0 - How incorrect market focus killed the encrypted Google Doc alternative
TickCross
Software & Hardware
United States
Bad Business Model
Graphite Docs
Justin Hunter
October 1, 2020
Habitual’s Biggest Mistake: Underestimating the power of marketing
TickCross
Productivity
Denmark
Bad Marketing
Habitual
Holger Sindbaek
September 17, 2020
Turning Pain into $5k/mo Revenues: Pathways’ success story
TickCross
Health
United Kingdom
$0-$10k/mo
Pathways
Sandip Sekhon
September 17, 2020
Buttercloth: Quitting a full-time job to start a $6M/year clothing brand
TickCross
e-Commerce
United States
+$500k/mo
Buttercloth
Danh Tran
September 8, 2020
How Depression Killed Thepresence, a Visual Website Builder
TickCross
Software & Hardware
Russia
Other
Thepresence
Miloslav Voloskov
September 8, 2020
How Money Management Killed Adleaf Technologies
TickCross
Education
India
Mismanagement of Funds
Adleaf Technologies
Chetan Vashistth
September 1, 2020
Turning $8k into a $30k/mo Drug and Alcohol Testing Business
TickCross
Health
United States
$25k-$100k/mo
Colorado Mobile Drug Testing
Chuck Marting
September 1, 2020
From losing a business partner to shutting down a $20k/mo SaaS
TickCross
Software & Hardware
United Kingdom
Lack of Funds
Watu
Pablo Fernández
August 26, 2020
Shutting Down a $3,500/mo Business due to Overwhelm and Overwork
TickCross
Entertainment
United States
Lack of Funds
Hawthorne Strategies
Michael Hawthorne
August 19, 2020
Making a Living by Helping Small Businesses Find Softwares
TickCross
Software & Hardware
United States
No Data
CuriousCheck
Carlos Crameri
August 5, 2020
Making $12k/mo & Spending 50k/mo - Behind the Failed “Evernote for Rental”
TickCross
Software & Hardware
United States
Bad Business Model
Rent Nest
Steven Glod
July 22, 2020
How this Postcard Marketing Internal Tool became a $54k/mo Co
TickCross
Marketing
United States
$25k-$100k/mo
Scout
Jordan Crawford
July 16, 2020
Building a £5,000/mo marketplace for letting agents
TickCross
Software & Hardware
United Kingdom
$0-$10k/mo
Rent Round
Raj Dosanjh
July 8, 2020
Swoop: Turning a problem into a transportation startup
TickCross
Transportation
United States
No Data
Swoop
Amir Ghorbani
July 2, 2020
How COVID-19 Killed this App Side Hustle
TickCross
Health
United States
Dependence on Others
Kopely
Andrew Laux
June 24, 2020
Turning an internal email tool into a +$8k/mo SaaS
TickCross
Software & Hardware
India
$0-$10k/mo
Helpwise
Gaurav Sharma
June 18, 2020
Burning $125k building a gaming content site
TickCross
Entertainment
Bulgaria
Bad Market Fit
DotaHaven
Kyril Kotashev
June 10, 2020
Growing a SaaS to $40,000/year while freelancing
TickCross
Finances
Canada
$0-$10k/mo
Lunch Money
Jen Yip
June 3, 2020
Building a cloud management PaaS and raising €750K
TickCross
Software & Hardware
Romania
$10k-$25k/mo
Bunnyshell
Alin Dobra
May 27, 2020
Behind the growth of Tuff, a growth marketing agency
TickCross
Marketing
United States
$0-$10k/mo
Tuff
Ellen Jantsch
May 20, 2020
Shutting down Cuddli, a dating app for geeks with 100k users
TickCross
Software & Hardware
United States
Bad Business Model
Cuddli
Robert Walker
May 20, 2020
Quitting my job to make $5000/month with side-projects
TickCross
Productivity
Italy
$0-$10k/mo
Mailbrew
Fabrizio Rinaldi
May 6, 2020
From side project to raising $450k - Building the remote work future
TickCross
Software & Hardware
United States
$10k-$25k/mo
Friday
Luke Thomas
April 22, 2020
How I learned to code in 1 year, launched my SaaS and got my first users
TickCross
Software & Hardware
United States
No Data
ProcessKit
Brian Casel
April 1, 2020
101 Studios: My first failed edutainment startup
TickCross
Education
United States
Bad Market Fit
101 Studios
Matt “GundayMonday” Sever
April 1, 2020
NE Lounge: $16,000 Amazon FBA Learning Lesson
TickCross
e-Commerce
United States
No Market Need
NE Lounge
Jake Lang
March 26, 2020
Wavve: Making $76k a Month Turning Podcasts into Videos
TickCross
Software & Hardware
United States
$25k-$100k/mo
Wavve
Baird Hall
March 26, 2020
lemlist: Making $1,000,000 a year from a cold email SaaS
TickCross
Software & Hardware
France
$25k-$100k/mo
lemlist
Guillaume Moubeche
March 20, 2020
Teamometer: $3k invested, 2 years gone and a HR SaaS no one needed
TickCross
Software & Hardware
Brazil
No Market Need
Teamometer
Sergio Schüler
March 19, 2020
From $2k/Month to Failure - The story of Kaya.gs, the disruptive crowd-funded Go server
TickCross
Entertainment
Argentina
Poor Product
Kaya.gs
Gabriel Benmergui
March 12, 2020
Dream Client Academy: Growing A Consulting Firm To $31k/Month At 21 Years Old
TickCross
Marketing
United States
$25k-$100k/mo
Dream Client Academy
Alex Albarran
March 1, 2020
From $0 in 6 months to 1M downloads and $21,000/month - The story of Habitify, the habit tracker app
TickCross
Productivity
Vietnam
$10k-$25k/mo
Habitify
Alan Nguyen
March 1, 2020
$100,000 Burnt and Shut Down: How co-founders relationship killed MotionThink
TickCross
Productivity
United States
Bad Management
MotionThink
Andrew Chen
March 1, 2020
3 years & $50,000 burnt on KOLOS, an iPad racing wheel nobody wanted
TickCross
Software & Hardware
Bulgaria
No Market Need
Kolos
Ivaylo Kalburdzhiev
February 19, 2020
Branch: $400k/mo selling furniture for startups
TickCross
e-Commerce
United States
$100k-$500k/mo
Branch
Sib Mahapatra
February 19, 2020
Scalefusion: $400k/month configuring businesses’ devices
TickCross
Software & Hardware
India
$100k-$500k/mo
Scalefusion
Harishanker Kannan
February 12, 2020
Price2Spy: The Serbian price monitoring SaaS that makes $155k/month
TickCross
Software & Hardware
Serbia
$100k-$500k/mo
Price2Spy
Misha Krunic
January 29, 2020
Community Coders: Failing to build a profitable business while in University
TickCross
Education
Canada
Bad Management
Community Coders
Kaito Cunningham
January 29, 2020
From 200k ARR and $20M acquisition offer to 0 – What happened to Yottio, the “Zoom for broadcast TV”?
TickCross
Software & Hardware
United States
Lack of Funds
Yottio
Jon Lawrence
January 14, 2020
350 clients, $212,000 and 5 employees - The story of the modern chimney company
TickCross
Services
United States
$10k-$25k/mo
Patriot Chimney
Mitchell Blackmon
January 14, 2020
Ansaro: How we failed to build a HR-related SaaS after 2 years, $3M raised & a team of 6
TickCross
Software & Hardware
United States
Bad Market Fit
Ansaro
Sam Stone
January 8, 2020
ScrapingBee: From 2 failed startups to $3,000/month in 4 months
TickCross
Software & Hardware
France
$0-$10k/mo
ScrapingBee
Pierre de Wulf
January 2, 2020
Swipes: 6 years running a business that lacked product-market fit
TickCross
Productivity
Bulgaria
Bad Market Fit
Swipes
Stefan Vladimirov
December 26, 2019
CROSSNET: From Childhood Friends to +$2M in Sales
TickCross
e-Commerce
United States
$100k-$500k/mo
CROSSNET
Chris Meade
December 26, 2019
Playdate: From 5k Users to Zombie - The startup that burnt $40k and shut down
TickCross
Social Media
United States
Lack of Funds
Playdate
Logan Rado
December 20, 2019
Okami Pack: The Never Launched Kickstarter — $44K Lost
TickCross
e-Commerce
United States
Lack of Funds
Okami Pack
Tim Chard
December 5, 2019
GawkBox: 3 years, $4.4M raised, $1M+ revenue - Lessons from first-time founder
TickCross
Entertainment
United States
Lack of Funds
Gawkbox
Christopher Brownridge
November 28, 2019
Waydev: Growing 40%/Month and Disrupting the Dev Analytics Space
TickCross
Analytics
Romania
No Data
Waydev
Alex Circei
November 25, 2019
VO2 Sportswear: Making £250k/year but Running out of Cash
TickCross
e-Commerce
United Kingdom
Lack of Funds
VO2 Sportswear
Matthew Tomkin
November 20, 2019
Sport Draftr: Shutting Down & Losing £45,000 Due to Legislation Changes
TickCross
Entertainment
United Kingdom
Legal Challenges
Sport Draftr
Will Laurenson
November 6, 2019
MealSurfers: Exiting a $7K/Month Food Startup
TickCross
Food & Beverage
Canada
$0-$10k/mo
MealSurfers
Ali Jiwani
November 4, 2019
Tali: Burning Through $750k with Little Return due to Lack of Market Fit
TickCross
Software & Hardware
United States
Bad Market Fit
Tali
Matthew Volm
October 11, 2019
Gulp: Lessons learned from burning $15K in college
TickCross
Software & Hardware
United States
Bad Business Model
Gulp
Jeff Orr
October 10, 2019
Imaginovation: A 100% Organically Bootstrapped Business Making 7 Figures
TickCross
Software & Hardware
United States
$25k-$100k/mo
Imaginovation
Michael Georgiou
October 3, 2019
Readership: The Marketing Tool with No Market
TickCross
Analytics
United States
No Market Need
Readership
Gregg Blanchard
October 3, 2019
Flexiple: $80K/month connecting startups with developers
TickCross
Software & Hardware
India
$25k-$100k/mo
Flexiple
Suvansh Bansal
September 26, 2019
Mangools: Bootstrapping a SaaS to +$250K/month on a Competitive Market
TickCross
Software & Hardware
Slovakia
$100k-$500k/mo
Mangools
Peter Hrbacik
September 19, 2019
Helping +10,000 Companies Reduce Customer Queue Time
TickCross
Software & Hardware
Singapore
No Data
Qwaiting
Rohit Garg
September 10, 2019
Stone: The e-Commerce that mastered word of mouth to $40k/month
TickCross
e-Commerce
United Kingdom
$25k-$100k/mo
Stone
Stefan Johnson
September 5, 2019
Mongoose Cricket: Shutting down after investing +$130K in glitzy marketing
TickCross
e-Commerce
United Kingdom
Bad Marketing
Mongoose Cricket
Thomas Evans
August 21, 2019
Standuply: Making $80K a month with a problem-solving Slack-first App
TickCross
Software & Hardware
Russia
$25k-$100k/mo
Standuply
Alex Kistenev
August 13, 2019
ClaimCompass: Disrupting the Airline Business and Making $100k/month
TickCross
Travel
Bulgaria
$100k-$500k/mo
ClaimCompass
Alexander Sumin
August 7, 2019
JustReachOut: Bootstrapping a PR SaaS up to $360k/year
TickCross
Marketing
United States
$25k-$100k/mo
JustReachOut
Dmitry Dragilev
August 1, 2019
140 Canvas: +17,000 visitors, 20 sales - The failed non-validated startup
TickCross
e-Commerce
United Kingdom
No Market Need
140 Canvas
Harry Dry
July 18, 2019
Festivilia: From Failed Startup, to $11 Launch, to $15,000 in Revenue
TickCross
Entertainment
Nigeria
$0-$10k/mo
Festivilia
Tobi Ogunwande
July 5, 2019
OneUp: How to bootstrap and be profitable in a VC-funded market
TickCross
Social Media
United States
$0-$10k/mo
OneUp
Davis Baer
June 26, 2019
Singulution: Burning $30,000 & 10 Months - Why you need to start lean
TickCross
Software & Hardware
United States
Bad Market Fit
Singulution
Hunt Burdick
June 26, 2019
Encharge: $3,950 in Pre-Orders - How to validate a SaaS idea
TickCross
Marketing
Bulgaria
$0-$10k/mo
Encharge
Kalo Yankulov
June 20, 2019
Narcine: Building an Electric Vehicle as a Side Project
TickCross
Transportation
Bulgaria
$0-$10k/mo
Narcine
Ognyan Bozhilov
June 13, 2019
NOX: From $183,000/year to $0 - How not to deal with competition
TickCross
e-Commerce
Singapore
Mismanagement of Funds
NOX
Jeremiah Lam
June 13, 2019
GrowthMentor: Bootstrapping a Marketplace for Mentors
TickCross
Education
Greece
$0-$10k/mo
GrowthMentor
Foti Panagio
June 7, 2019
WedMap: From $100K Jobs to Failed Airbnb for Weddings
TickCross
Software & Hardware
Switzerland
Lack of Funds
WedMap
Tauras Sinkus
May 31, 2019
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