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Daryl Lu

Lessons from Startup Failure.

Postmortem of a Failed Startup: Lessons for Success

Rarely is there a single root cause for a failed startup. Instead, there's a multitude of decisions and actions that intertwine and cascade to ultimately bring a startup towards success or failure. That's what I learned building my startup, Body Boss Fitness, with three of my

Without Product-Market Fit, Did We Quit Too Early?

Without Product-Market Fit, Did We Quit Too Early?

If the inner voice in you keeps telling you to go back or to keep forging ahead, should you? Should I? I keep bringing up Body Boss recently because I feel it's unfinished business. I feel like we quit too early. Or maybe I'm just really

The End of A 2.5-Year Startup Roller Coaster: 21 Lessons Learned from Failure

The End of A 2.5-Year Startup Roller Coaster: 21 Lessons Learned from Failure

Yowza, starting a startup from nothing is wicked hard. After 2.5 years at Body Boss, my team and I have been riding the startup roller coaster with high highs and low lows. Our ride has been one of the most frustrating, stressful, challenging, and rewarding experiences of our lives.