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3 Keys to Boosting Your Confidence
Do you charge ahead, willing to give anything a try and persisting in the face of setbacks, criticism and failure? Or do you hesitate, waiting until you feel you can put the pieces together so everything will be “just right,” ensuring that everything goes as planned and everyone is happy? My grandfather’s motto for life…
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The 13 Biggest Failures from Successful Entrepreneurs (And What They’ve Learned From Them)
Without any further ado and in their own words, here are some of the biggest mistakes and lessons learned from 13 successful entrepreneurs. 1. “We wasted $1,000,000 on a company that never launched” Hiten Shah, Co-Founder at KISSmetrics My co-founder and I spent $1,000,000 on a web hosting company that never launched. We were perfectionist so…
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How Failure Made These Entrepreneurs Millions
When Steve Blank appeared on the cover of Wired magazine 19 years ago, his company then, Rocket Science Games, was expected to revolutionize the videogame industry. At the time, Blank didn\’t let the skepticism of critics faze him. \”I thought I was a genius,\” he says. Three months later, when he called his mother to…
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Falling Forward: Losing the moment and winning the world
It is only a failure when you give up. You have heard this, right? Easy to remember in retrospect and more difficult to stay in touch with when we are face to face with less than stellar results. It so easy to think that our failure really is a cosmic message that we need…
