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Peter Reinhardt Raised Money, Failed, Pivoted, Failed Again… and Then?

May 14, 2014

Peter Reinhardt has the privilege of working at Segment.io, with upstanding, intelligent, and hilarious friends. Together, they built an analytics API that helps companies use their data easily and effectively.

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Resource Mentioned:

  • Your Big Idea: Successful Entrepreneurs have One Big Idea. Follow JLD’s FREE training & you’ll discover Your Big Idea in less than an hour!

Success Quote

  • “Eventually you are going to have to buckle down and do something.” – Peter’s father

Business Failure

  • Peter shares an absolute failure. Funding came in, a year’s worth of work completed, but zero traction. Listen to the pivot that changed it all.

Entrepreneurial AH-HA Moment

  • To prove that his idea was horrible, Peter posted it to hacker news. He braced for the insults and negativity, and what he received instead sent him into shock and awe.

Current Business

  • Segment.io is helping business’ analze their traffic every day. Listen to why Peter is so fired up about one area in particular…

Small Business Resource

  • Essay’s by Paul Graham: What the Bubble Got Right · The Age of the Essay · The Python Paradox · Great Hackers · Mind the Gap · How to Make Wealth · The Word “Hacker”.

Best Business Book

  • How to Win Friends & Influence People by Dale Carnegie

Interview Links

  • Segment.io: Install tracking for the last time.

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