Maybe I missed it, but where's the failure part? The author's startup didn't get into YCombinator. That's not failure. She and her co-founder did not make any m

Maybe I missed it, but where's the failure part? The author's startup didn't get into YCombinator. That's not failure. She and her co-founder did not make any mistakes. Failure is what happens when your business doesn't go anywhere. The only possible mistake here would be for her and her co-founder to believe that they needed to get into YCombinator (or any other program) for their business to go somewhere.