LoopNest
My EdTech startup. It ran for a year and taught me more than it earned.
Why I started it
I once applied for a role at a well-known EdTech company. The terms didn’t match what I wanted, so I turned it down. That made me think: instead of joining someone else’s platform, what if I built my own? LoopNest was that attempt.
What it was
LoopNest was an EdTech platform.
Why it closed
LoopNest ran from May 2025 to April 2026. It didn’t fail because the idea had no potential. It failed because I didn’t have enough people, enough experience or enough money to build it properly and keep it running.
What I learned
- Leadership. A founder’s job is to make the team able to do the work, not to do all of it himself.
- Execution. An idea is cheap. Shipping it every week, with the resources you actually have, is the hard part.
- Resources. Plan for the people and money a product really needs, not the amount you hope will be enough.
- Teamwork. Startups are built by small teams that trust each other. Find those people first.
I carried every one of these lessons into Proxima IT and Nawabi Lungi.
The full story
I wrote about what went wrong, and what I’d do differently.