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Museum of Failures

Ideas we couldn’t make work, and the questions they left us.

Every exhibit has the same placard: what we believed, where we got stuck, and the question it left us.

  1. Would the world be better if this worked?
    Exhibit 01 · Museum of Failures

    Fortiut: we didn’t believe in it, so we stopped

    A marketplace where you could win what you can’t afford. It had a plan, personas and a budget. It never launched, and the best reason was the simplest: we didn’t want it to win.

    Andrea & Jorge · 4 min read
  2. Who will run it every day?
    Exhibit 02 · Museum of Failures

    iChefs: people loved it, and that wasn’t enough

    An Uber for chefs, launched in Brazil by a group of friends. The idea was validated. Running it every day was the part we couldn’t do.

    Andrea & Jorge · 3 min read
  3. Close to people. One decider. A model we can run.
    Exhibit 03 · Museum of Failures

    Two failures, the same three mistakes

    Fortiut and iChefs looked nothing alike. They failed for the same three reasons, and those reasons became the checklist we use before starting anything.

    Andrea & Jorge · 3 min read

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