Posts tagged "my biggest mistake"

Martin Karafilis is the CEO of startup hub Fishburners. He has a long career and pedigree in the space, but it took a mistake from his first startup to help get him here.

A few years ago, Tristan Sternson found himself caught in the crosshairs in the transition from startup to established business with a big project in the works.

Slyp is an automated ‘smart’ receipt company co-founded by Spiro Rokos, Paul Weingarth and Mike Boyd that was first inspired by a 50cm long receipt handed out at a department store in 2016.

Given Genesis Health + Fitness’s track record, Ian Jensen-Muir has obviously made a lot of good decisions, but he says it hasn’t all been personal bests, and one of his biggest mistakes was one he encountered early on in the business.

What happens when your biggest mistake is also one of your biggest successes?

Iris Smit's biggest mistake is the type that haunts the dreams of many entrepreneurs across the world, yet it’s one any business owner can make in a split second.

Fonda started to plateau when the business failed to realise it had hit the limit of its “startup mode”, says co-founder Tim McDonald.

Yasmin Grigaliunas knows her job as a founder is to ‘fail often'. But there's one mistake that sticks out to her the most.

In a recent interview with SmartCompany Plus, Jabbour explained how losing one client that generated 40% of her company's revenue turned out to be the best thing possible.

Despite his career success, Angus McDonald hasn’t been immune to mistakes. And his biggest mistake is one that provided a lesson he still carries today.

While Camplify founder Justin Hales has welcomed the startup's speedy growth, he admits the team neglected one very important business activity: tracking its hard data.

Mr Yum has collected more than $100 million in venture capital to date, helping it expand overseas and launch acquisitions of its own. And yet, along the way, mistakes were made.