Radha Vyas, Flash Pack

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January 8, 2024

How to learn from mistakes

Here's how to reorientate after a tough year and set goals for 2024

Until 2020, bootstrapped travel company Flash Pack saw its gross merchandise volume (total value of goods sold) grow to £20m in four years. Then, Covid-19 ravaged the travel industry, causing the company to go into administration.

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Miriam Partington

Miriam Partington was a senior reporter at Sifted, based in Berlin. She covered the DACH region and the future of work, and wrote Startup Life , a weekly newsletter on what it takes to build a startup.

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