"On the one hand, the article can be depressing - each fallout is a dream that died. On the other hand, one of the things that makes the Valley succeed is it's

"On the one hand, the article can be depressing - each fallout is a dream that died. On the other hand, one of the things that makes the Valley succeed is it's capacity to celebrate failure. A mistake? What did you learn? Now move on!" The way I think about it is this: in order for the successes to occur, there have to be failures. In a lottery, it is the unsuccessful tickets that fund the winner. I'm not saying that running a business has as much to do with chance as a lottery (although there is certainly a strong element of chance) but the way I see it is that I'm taking part in an exercise and just because I don't end up the "winner" doesn't make my part less important to the exercise as a whole. I think this can be re-applied to one's whole life: you start to feel less a sense of individualism and victimisation and more like "shit just happens, let's have some fun in the meantime".