[ismail]

Mark, sad to hear about Trevolta. All the best for the future.

Maybe there was a pivot in there somewhere? Though as we know here in SA you often do not have enough time.

i.e We (2 co-founders) raised $<10,000 for chowhub as you know,ran for over 9 months. Just paying the rent and feeding your family becomes a massive stress, especially if you do not have a safety net of rich parents/family.

Do not focus on external reasons for failure, introspect and figure out why and what YOU did wrong or could have done better. This is how you learn, look for contradictions in your thinking this is where insights come from.

[markkarimov]

Hey Ismail, great to hear from you! We should go have coffee some time soon.

Thanks for the comment. I think there is definitely a pivot somewhere there - given we had more time, we would find a working model through trial and error. But with messy structure like that and not being in control of the company - it doesn't make you wanna pursue it anymore. I still believe in the initial idea and just wish we did everything right from the beginning - it would buy us more time.

I know what we did wrong and I learned a lot, I just wish we had more time to right the wrongs. :)