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Have You Ever Failed?
- jleyank 18y agoI've always heard "if you don't fail from time to time, you're not trying hard enough...". I've failed courses, I've failed job interviews, I've had projects fail to work, or to deliver. I've had failed relationships, and I've failed to help people from time to time. Gobs of failures, I guess. However, I think overall I've been successful, and I've tried to help out when/where I can. Might I try harder? Certainly, but I'm doing ok.
- ScottWhigham 18y agoI enjoy Brad's posts usually but I just don't get it with this one. This post might be an inspiration to other potential investors (and maybe that's who this posts' target audience is) but what am I, the entrepreneur, to get from this? If you read beteween the lines, it's like, "If you have millions, you can fail a whole lot - even for years at a time - but, if you have enough money to stick around for 3-5 years, eventually you'll be successful." No offense but that's nothing like my life as an entrepreneur. I'm certainy not preaching that it's okay to fail/succeed/whatever but it just feels weird for a multi-millionaire investor with a master's degree in "Management Science" to preach "Never quit" to entrepreneurs. If he was an entpreneur, I get it - but he isn't - and therefore I don't get it. I like Brad Feld's advice and topics usually but this one just is not for me.