ice cube said "life ain't a track meet, it's a marathon". you take risks. you build something. you learn to build and manage a company. you learn to raise c

ice cube said "life ain't a track meet, it's a marathon". you take risks. you build something. you learn to build and manage a company. you learn to raise capital. you learn to negotiate a buyout. you learn to ship products and support customers. for business, personal or any variety of reasons, the founders decide that being acqui-hired is their best option, and have an entirely new set of skills to apply to their next business iteration. but you're labeled as "failures" by this jacques mattheij. i don't agree with him. not at all. teddy roosevelt said: It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.