Failure Friday: Live Theater Rebrand Meets Global Pandemic
In this week’s Failure Friday segment, we hear from Matthew Bivens, the founder of a business that helps live theaters include captioning for people who are deaf or hard-of-hearing. An ambitious plan to rebrand for 2020 ran head-on into nationwide theatre closures, leaving the team out of work … at least for now.
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What It's About
When the pandemic curtain threatens live theater, does the show go on?
Notes from Chris
Episode 1756
I believe we can learn as much from failure as we can from success, if not more. It’s with this principle in mind that I offer you a weekly segment called Failure Friday: a collection of short stories all about mistakes, missteps, disasters, and of course, failure. Just like our Throwback Thursday segment, you’ll hear directly from side hustlers who have struggled to get something off the ground. They’ll tell you a short story of something that went very wrong. The stories will vary, but often it starts with an idea, what they thought would happen and what really happened—and of course, what they learned. Today’s short story features Matt from Chicago. We told the successful story of his business Caption Point on Episode #543: Marriage Inspires Theatre Captioning App & Service. In the early part of 2020 they were beginning a new phase of operations that would be bigger and better and … not at all compatible with a global pandemic. Matt can tell the story better than me… Listen to today's episode to learn more...MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE:
- Thanks to Matthew for sharing this transparent and truthful story. Check out his website at CaptionPoint.com. Live theater is returning in some places already—not all, of course—but hopefully they’ll be up and running in some fashion soon. I also admire the work smarter, not harder mindset.
- Marriage Inspires Theatre Captioning App & Service: After marrying a woman who was born deaf, an actor and musician starts a side hustle captioning theater performances.
- No Code, No Problem: Easy-to-Build Apps for Everyone: While waiting in line at a food truck, this Miami man discovers a way to build professional looking apps without learning how to code. He now earns a substantial side income building them for clients.
- Q&A: Where do I begin if I want to make an app?: This listener wants to make an app, but needs some help knowing where to start.
