Candid talk from entrepreneur Gina Bianchini on how not to f*** up

The founder of the Ning social networking platform and MightyBell offers candid advice about failure.

How Airbnb failed its way through “the trough of sorrow” to a $1B valuation

Today Airbnb is one of Silicon Valley’s hottest startups, but it has definitely failed its way to glory.

That made yesterday’s Failcon — a San Francisco event where entrepreneurs revel in their most humiliating defeats — an ideal venue for …