Your biggest founder fail = our favorite new feature

💥 Failures Worth Bragging About

Because pretending we have it all together is exhausting.

This week, we’re spotlighting the faceplants, flops, and founder fails that never made it to LinkedIn — but taught us everything.

The budget you blew.
The onboarding email you forgot.
The product you launched… connected to staging.

We all have one.
Now we want yours.

🎤 What’s a startup fail you’ll never forget — and secretly learned the most from?

🔥 Why We’re Doing This

Because the biggest lessons come from the biggest mess-ups.
Because perfection is boring.
And because founders don’t need more highlight reels — they need honest ones.

This is your permission slip to drop the act and share the stuff you actually learned from.

📬 How to Share Your Fail

🗣️ Reply to this email
💬 DM us on LinkedIn
🙈 Want to stay anonymous? Submit here → [Insert Form Link]
📣 Or post it proudly with #FiCFailForward

Need inspo? We’ve heard it all:

👀 Coming Soon: Cathy’s “I Can’t Believe I Did That” Story

Our co-founder Cathy’s dropping a fail story of her own — and it’s a good one (think chaos, and an almost-disaster).

We’ll be featuring hers — and a few spicy founder flops from the community — in an upcoming issue.

💬 Want yours in the mix?
Reply or submit anonymously here.
Or tag us with #FiCFailForward

📦 Need something actually useful this week?

📅 Luma Events Calendar
Find real pitch nights, grant deadlines, and meetups — all in one place.

💬 Join the Builders Club (WhatsApp)
Plug into real convos. Regionally sorted. Low-key powerful.

🌐 Explore the FiC Website
More stories. More programs. More Canadian momentum.

📚 Apply for Funding Opportunities
We update this weekly. No fluff. Just grants and programs you can use now.

✊ Builders Screw Up. Then They Ship.

So let’s talk about it.
We’ll feature the funniest, messiest, most painfully honest founder fails soon — and what they taught us.

Bring the chaos. We’ll bring the memes.

— The FiC Team
Falling forward. Loudly.