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2020 caught most of us off guard. A seemingly booming economy now seems to be headed towards a recession, which will inevitably leave a lot of people unemployed across many industries.  More importantly, 2020 is likely to represent one of the most essential 'resets' the economy will go through. This instability, this chaos, is a ladder; for witty entrepreneurs to find opportunities, to create or evolve their business and monetize this revolution

Why did forever 21 go bankrupt?   It was the embodiment of the American dream. A migrant couple who starts from scratch and rises to the top of the clothing retail industry. But then, that dream plummets to the ground.

If you were a teenager in the early 2000s, you will remember there was a site that transformed the concept of a social network: MySpace.  However, nowadays it is just a distant memory of a fun platform we used in simpler times. So, what happened? What made them fall and what can we learn from their story?

Can 60 seconds end a unicorn that managed to raise $120 million? If you ask Doug Evans, founder of Juicero, he will say yes.

We deal with thousands of companies in the process of fundraising. Last year, I spoke to over 1,000 founders, and I've set a personal goal to beat that this year.    These companies mostly come to me for office hours, and most of the time, their questions revolve around fundraising. One thousand people are enough to detect some patterns: the mistakes these companies are making when approaching their fundraising.

► Sign Up for Slidebean - 1 month FREE: https://slidebean.com/youtube  In this episode of Startup Forensics, we discuss Pebble: the smartwatch that was ready to take the world by storm and ended up ceasing to exist after production issues and, most importantly, wrong decisions. What exactly happened to the Pebble Watch? Find out here!

What happened to Vine? 🤳🏼   In this episode of Startup Forensics, we’re going to throwback to Vine and dig into some key aspects of its rise and fall, including Twitter’s acquisition of the company, along with some product, and competition analysis.

Let's just throw it out there: being a startup CEO is one of the most demanding and mentally exhausting jobs ever. The decisions you make, affect not only the future of your company but the future of the people who trust you to make the right decisions.

Anonymous messages and local context were the perfect mix to make the popular social network, YikYak, come to life in 2013. They were also the poison to kill it and to write on its tombstone the epitaph of: died too young and too soon.

WeWork. They rose. They fell. What lessons can we learn from them?   Check out our brand new series: Startup Forensics. ► Start with the right foot. Let us design your pitch deck. : https://slidebean.com/pitch-deck