Really great article. I would love to see more people sharing learning from their failures. It’s important that we learn from each other’s attempts.
I applaud you guys for sharing your story and experience. It’s disappointing that Cause didn’t succeed—it seems like such a great idea. I’m curious how much customer research and profiling you did before you opened.
I’m also curious if you invited nonprofits into the space to present and talk about their work, or if the space was just made available to rent to nonprofits.
In other words, were you engaging the community directly, or hoping that the community would initiate those activities?
Here in SF it’d be great to have a local watering hole where there was a good chance the person sitting next to you wasn’t building an app to organize people’s wine collections better, but an app to, say, connect low-income people to freely available products and services. Cities thrive on having like-minded and skilled people bump into each other. Providing a place to do that for specific sectors (especially the impact sector) within a city seems like a fantastic idea.
great insights you got in this article, i for one would like to see the story of business failure being told more often. i think there are many business lessons that can be learnt from business failure
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BY Sean Speer
ON May 11, 2015 01:55 PM
Really great article. I would love to see more people sharing learning from their failures. It’s important that we learn from each other’s attempts.
I applaud you guys for sharing your story and experience. It’s disappointing that Cause didn’t succeed—it seems like such a great idea. I’m curious how much customer research and profiling you did before you opened.
I’m also curious if you invited nonprofits into the space to present and talk about their work, or if the space was just made available to rent to nonprofits.
In other words, were you engaging the community directly, or hoping that the community would initiate those activities?
Here in SF it’d be great to have a local watering hole where there was a good chance the person sitting next to you wasn’t building an app to organize people’s wine collections better, but an app to, say, connect low-income people to freely available products and services. Cities thrive on having like-minded and skilled people bump into each other. Providing a place to do that for specific sectors (especially the impact sector) within a city seems like a fantastic idea.
BY Selma Moya
ON May 12, 2015 06:25 AM
great insights you got in this article, i for one would like to see the story of business failure being told more often. i think there are many business lessons that can be learnt from business failure