The benefits of failure
Failure is never fun, but it’s not something you should live in fear of. JLABS CEO Judy Estrin, in an entrepreneurial thought leader lecture given at Stanford University, notes that when they’re not given the opportunity to fall short of new goals, engineers and thinkers are incapable of setting their sights high. Failure isn’t permanently fatal, either. Silicon Valley is a forgiving place. If you have a great idea, you’re often given credit just for stretching and broadening new notions into the marketplace.
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Chris Morris is editor of the Entrepreneur Corner on VentureBeat, helping start-up business owners launch and grow their companies. He previously worked at Yahoo! Finance, where he was managing editor, and as director of content development at CNNMoney.com. He is also a widely respected journalist in the video game and technology fields, whose work has appeared in Variety, CNBC.com, AOL and Forbes.com. Follow him on Twitter at @MorrisatLarge
