This is how founders should deal with startup failure
Guest Post Startups have as much to learn about success as they do from failure.
5 ways to fight your fears, get off your ass, and start that startup
Guest Post You know that you want to quit your job and that you want to start a startup. You’ve had this desire for quite sometime now and you really must begin. But you don’t.
Entrepreneurs, skip these 4 common startup screw-ups
Guest Post Here are some of the strangest startup blunders I've come across, and tips to avoid similar problems in your own company.
Candid talk from entrepreneur Gina Bianchini on how not to f*** up
October 22, 2012 12:42 PM
Dean Takahashi
The founder of the Ning social networking platform and MightyBell offers candid advice about failure.
The secrets of my failure: Why ‘winning’ is not our natural state
When we don’t share our mistakes, no-one else can learn from them. As a result, collectively, we waste a huge amount of time, money and our sanity making the same ones again and again.
Kickstarter dodges responsibility for failed projects
September 4, 2012 12:28 PM
John Koetsier
What happens if a crowdsourced project fails? Do contributors get their money back?
In an NPR interview, Kickstarter co-founder Yancey Strickler seems to suggest that has never happened ... that failed projects which are unable to deliver promised goods are "a bridge that has not yet been crossed."
Ben Huh of Cheezburger on starting, failing, taking VC, and his favorite meme
August 30, 2012 8:16 AM
John Koetsier
Fifty-plus sites, 375 million page views a month, 4.5 million contributors, and $30 million in venture capital: Ben Huh's Cheezburger Network has come a long ways from one little cat cartoon site, I Can Haz Cheezburger.
Korean startups still fight against the stigma of failure
June 12, 2012 7:01 PM
Meghan Kelly
Editor's Pick
In Silicon Valley, people fail. And they fail often. But one of the elements of Silicon Valley that makes it such a petri dish for startups is its tolerance for failure. In Korea, however, failure is still a taboo.
“In …
Is your startup failing? Here’s how to exit gracefully
Guest Post
Not every startup succeeds. Most persistent entrepreneurs eventually find themselves with a business that is failing or going nowhere. There’s lots of advice about starting a new business and navigating a great exit. People don’t like to talk about less …
How to make your startup succeed where others have failed
Guest Post
Gene Yoon has been a founder, startup executive, venture capitalist and lawyer over the last decade in Silicon Valley. His current startup, Bynamite, is attempting an idea that many have failed at before. He submitted this story to VentureBeat.
Thirty …
6 ways to grow a successful small business without going crazy
Guest Post
(Editor’s note: Clate Mask is co-author of the New York Times bestseller Conquer the Chaos and CEO of Infusionsoft,. He submitted this column to VentureBeat.)
The lifelong “company man” has become a relic of the past. New businesses are being …
Want to succeed? Try failing
Silicon Valley celebrates its successes, but the failure rate is generally much, much higher. But what makes the Valley different than other entrepreneur-rich areas is how it deals with those failures. Randy Komisar of Kleiner Perkins, in this entrepreneur though …
