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Category: failure

True Failure

Tweet The other night, I was down at Techstars listening to the companies practice their pitches. Whats always most interesting to me is how the companies have shifted over the course of three months. Some have shifted a ton (one company completely restarted), and a few have made really minor adjustments. It always reminds me [...]

When is Too Much Failure Too Much?

Tweet I love the concept of failure. I look for it in the people I hire. I look for it in the people that I admire. Failure, for a lack of a better word, is good. But is it always? Can there come a point where too much (or too deep) failure is a bad [...]

Failure in the Morning

Tweet This morning I woke up and checked my email. In it was an email from my friend David Cohen entitled “Wow.” Normally, I just delete David’s emails because they are boring nonsense about Techstars, or yet another expression of adulation, but the single word subject made me curious. David, not the most eloquent person [...]