The story of YCombinator's GoScale (Heroku for pHp) and why it failed, with Co-founder Colin Hayhurst

Update: 2020-12-29

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Colin Hayhurst a successful entrepreneur , and startup mentor, shares his experience in starting and shutting down the YCombinator backed company GoScale that he co-founded with James Cunningham.

The YC practice interview app, referred too, can be found here and the associated TechCrunch article here.

Colin has a deep technical and commercial background with startups in engineering and applied physics software, web infrastructure, machine learning and search. He alo spent several years supporting and mentoring numerous technology startups. He is the CEO of Mojeek, the first privacy based and only web-crawler search engine that does not track.

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The story of YCombinator's GoScale (Heroku for pHp) and why it failed, with Co-founder Colin Hayhurst

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The story of YCombinator's GoScale (Heroku for pHp) and why it failed, with Co-founder Colin Hayhurst

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The story of YCombinator's GoScale (Heroku for pHp) and why it failed, with Co-founder Colin Hayhurst