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Fractional Growth Executive, Consultant and Startup Coach | Helping Startup Founders Find Clarity

Rejection by accelerators? Check. Failed product? Check. Still standing? Check. October 2023: I was at my lowest. Cicero—the product I poured months into—was a mess. Integrations? Failing. Content curation? Horrible. And after endless rejections from VCs and accelerators, we had one Hail Mary: Go viral, fast. Spoiler alert: We didn’t. By November, I had to pivot. Fast. We built Cynthesis, which eventually became Dediro—a product I’m proud of today. But that pivot was ugly. A lot of people don’t talk about the dark days of failure, and here’s my truth: I felt like I let my CTO and team down. I let myself down. → Yet, fast-forward to today, and that failure was the seed for everything that’s working right now. Success? Nah. It’s the struggle that makes it count. Stay in the game, even when you feel like quitting. PS → Ever had a project that fell apart? How did you bounce back?

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