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Failure Friday: Rent-a-Friend Fails to Launch in Tulsa

In this week’s Failure Friday segment, we hear from a small-town side hustler who tries to follow a popular business model from Japan. Unfortunately, the idea is lost in translation.

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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. Today’s short story features Billy from Tulsa, Oklahoma. Long ago I mentioned a story about a guy in Japan who had found great success renting himself out to strangers. Not for anything weird, but just for casual hang-outs. Billy thought “Let’s bring this to Oklahoma!” and everyone in Oklahoma thought “Let’s not.” But of course, it’s all about the details ... let’s hear them from Billy.

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