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Hustle: The Scoutzie Story (feat. Kirill Zubovsky)

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Kirill Zubovsky started scoutzie.com a few years ago as a destination for mobile designers to showcase their work and as a curated marketplace for design. Over the years Scoutzie changed their model, pivoted, and experimented with several unique business models. Anthony Armendariz’s relationship with Scoutzie helped grow his business to the point of being able to create a business which would become Funsize.

As of 2015, the Scoutzie team decided to shut the product down. We discuss with Kirill about his experiences, and what’s next.

Show Notes
  • 00:00 Introductions
  • 02:47 Scoutzie in the beginning
  • 13:00 Going through Y Combinator & proving the model
  • 16:29 Difficulties arise
  • 18:09 Take enough money early-on, once you run out of money, no one wants to give you more
  • 22:07 Pivot roll-out: automated project management
  • 25:05 Investors & users reaction to announcing shut-down
  • 26:50 Attempts at resuscitation
  • 30:47 In retrospect
  • 34:44 How it feels now and what's next?
    • Links
    • Kirill on Twitter @kirillzubovsky
    • Scoutzie.com
    • Y Combinator
    • "The Only Thing That Matters" article Kirill mentions by Marc Andreessen @pmarca
    • Kirill's Recommended Reading: Zero to One by Peter Thiel
    • The Hard Thing About Hard Things by Ben Horowitz

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