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🐝 Honestbee aspired to be Asia's largest online on-demand concierge grocery delivery service and the world's most convenient services marketplace ever! What led to its downfall?
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“Hiring and talent retention are one of the challenges many startups face. This is because the skill sets we need are not readily available in Asia.”
Joel Sng, CEO and Co-founder of Honestbee
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The words failure and startup are not synonymous. In fact, you will hear these words together a lot. So, let’s be honest about Honestbee. Honestbee had a great promise. It brought online grocery to the palms of your hand. You may have already heard, and if not, we will tell you the shocker of why Honestbee failed.

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