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My founder stories

Stories of my own ventures from 2015 to today: Rengalux, Patileme, Etrexio and the ones that failed in between. Starting with no capital, failing, trying again.

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I became a founder because I wanted to get married

I didn't start out with a business idea. I started because I wanted to get married, and with 200 lira between us we had to learn everything we lacked by trial and error.

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My grandmother's sweater founded our company

When you start with tiny capital and reinvest everything into product, there's nothing left to make the business official. Our company was founded by selling the Kurt Cobain sweater my grandmother knitted to a buyer in America.

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You can't grow without a partner

What holds a partnership together is not the wins you share but your willingness to risk losing together. Once you succeed, partners are easy to find. The hard part is having someone you can share failure with.

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