Ezeike: Shut down venture-backed startup in 2022 after four-plus years
Lotanna Ezeike · Startup Acquisition Stories with Lotanna Ezeike, Founder of Creator Check · Mar 28, 2023 · at 1:04
Lotanna Ezeike reflects on his startup journey and the failure of his previous venture before pivoting to micro-SaaS.
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“I started out my own startup, did the whole VC thing, did the raising, then the failing and so we actually closed down and wound down last year, and I kind of lost the spark I had just because I've been working there for like four years plus”
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