Lessons I learned from my 2 failed companies

In this article, I am going to talk about the startup mistakes I made, the hard lessons I had to learn, and how they translated into the success of this new company.

If you’re new to this blog, my name is Caya. I am the CEO of a company called Slidebean.

Slidebean is my third startup. The other two failed and left me with a sad face and a few thousand dollars in debt.

I’ll be talking about three specific mistakes here:

On my first company

1- Outsourcing the development

On my second company

2- Undefined terms that led me to owe $15,000

Finally, on Slidebean

3- business model iterations

While this didn’t kill the company, it was a very close call.

Lessons learned from failing

My first company

So, back in 2010, I decided to start a classified site. Bear with me here, I hail from Costa Rica- and the only classified sites back then were awful.