Category: Binpress

  • Startup Postmortem: Binpress

    Startup Postmortem: Binpress

    For over 5 years, my life revolved around growing my previous company, Binpress. In the months since we found a buyer for it, I’ve had some time to think about why it failed. Now that we’ve sold the company, I wanted to reflect on the journey my co-founder and I had with the company, from…

  • The ABC of raising your seed round

    After failing miserably to raise 18 months ago, digging deep and bootstrapping our way to profitability, we made another attempt earlier this year and got a huge break by getting into 500startups. We are now in the middle of raising our seed round and are doing a much better job at it than previously. I…

  • Why we stopped raising until we no longer need the money

    Note: This now has a follow up post about how we successfully raised our seed round. There’s a well known mantra in the startup world that I used to believe in – “Launch early”. The concept is to launch a minimal product (MVP in lean startup terms), get real world feedback and iterate quickly. Feedback…