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Learning from failures is invaluable. Focusing only on successes is like getting a math exam back and only studying the ones you got right. Paraphrasing Tolstoy

Learning from failures is invaluable. Focusing only on successes is like getting a math exam back and only studying the ones you got right. Paraphrasing Tolstoy: all successes are alike, each failure is unique. It seems like there are far more ways to go wrong than right, but developing that catalog of mistakes from which to learn is difficult when it can be so painful to share (and often to listen to) unpleasant experiences.

guptaneil 14y ago
I like the idea of a catalog of mistakes. TechCrunch makes it easy to get caught up in all the success stories, but there's no easy way to learn from the failures, which can be far more enlightening. I decided to start a Twitter profile to collect all these post-mortems in one place. If such a resource already exists, let me know! https://twitter.com/StartupGrave https://twitter.com/StartupGrave
- tmoullet 14y ago
  There's the TechCrunch deadpool. http://techcrunch.com/tag/deadpool/ http://techcrunch.com/tag/deadpool/
  - guptaneil 14y ago
    True, but those are more like PSA's than post-mortems. There's not much one can learn from those announcements.
colemorrison 14y ago
Great pull in from Tolstoy!