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Startup Stories with Fexingo: Conversations About Founders, Funding, and Building Companies from Zero

Startup Stories with Fexingo: Conversations About Founders, Funding, and Building Companies from Zero

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Lucas and Luna sit on a worn leather sofa in a startup loft, whiteboard sketches of growth curves behind them, and talk about the messy work of building a company from zero. Each episode picks a single founder's journey — from garage prototype to Series A, or from pivot to shutdown — and reconstructs the decisions that mattered. Lucas, with a journalist's instinct for the uncomfortable question, presses on the numbers: the seed round that closed at a 28% discount to later valuation, the burn rate that forced a layoff, the customer acquisition cost that took eighteen months to drop below lifetime value. Luna, an entrepreneur herself, pushes back with the human side: the co-founder who walked out, the product-market fit that arrived only after three failed launches, the term sheet they almost signed but didn't. Together, they dissect pitch decks, cap tables, and board dynamics without the usual startup cheerleading. This is not a show about unicorns — it's about the 80-hour weeks, the near-death experiences, and the one metric that actually saved the company. For listeners who want the real story behind the press release, who know that 'blitzscaling' is often just a euphemism for 'we ran out of cash,' and who prefer honest post-mortems to victory laps. What would you have done when the lead investor pulled out on a Friday afternoon? #StartupStories #FounderJourney #VentureCapital #SeedFunding #SeriesA #PitchDecks #CapTables #BurnRate #CustomerAcquisition #ProductMarketFit #PivotOrPersevere #CoFounderConflict #TermSheets #StartupPostMortem #BuildingFromZero #Business #FexingoBusiness #BusinessPodcast #Startups Keep every episode free: buymeacoffee.com/fexingo© 2026 Fexingo. All rights reserved. 経済学
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  • How Deel Built a Billion Dollar Payroll Without Borders

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