Katie Keith (Barn2 Plugins) on Her Spectacular Business Fail + Lessons Learned
We don’t talk about failure nearly enough in the software world ☠️ The mistakes and hard lessons learned from %^&*@!ing up spectacularly are stepping stones to successful product development. With this in mind, we asked successful product makers and entrepreneurs from the WordPress community to candidly share their most significant blunders with us at WordCamp Europe 2023.
Katie Keith is the CEO and co-founder of Barn2 Plugins, a WooCommerce extensions plugin shop.
The Fail
After building WordPress websites for clients for a few years, Katie’s web agency pivoted into products as they deemed it more scalable. They proceeded to spend an entire year building a theme to sell on ThemeForest, only for it to be rejected because the market had moved on.
Find out more about what Katie learned from effing up 😅 and why the experience made her wiser and even more resilient 💪
Check out how our other guests benefitted from their errors in Epic Tales of Spectacular Fails: Lessons From Leading WordPress Entrepreneurs 👇
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