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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