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Failure(s)
In a world where 99% of startups end in failure, there’s a wealth to be learned from this deadpool.
It’s prolly a hard truth to swallow, but
most people who fail don’t succeed in the end
And failure is only ‘marketable’ for a very small number of times.
Your big break is your first movie, your first book deal, your notice that you’ve been accepted to Y Combinator. After that you’re an insider, you’re part of the industry, looking out from within the walled garden, and you’re afforded two or three more kicks at the can before people start forgetting to return your emails.
Do we really learn more from failure? Apparently not always.
if you fail repeatedly, while you learn from those failures, others are learning from their success. How to handle growth, how to cut deals, how to use media attention, how to hire good employees, how to acquire and be acquired, how to ride the fabled hockey stick, how to use each success as a springboard for the next. All lessons that you are not learning while doing your best to overcome the collapse of your latest dream.
Source: Failure Mode
Creating something that will last is not easy. In order to make a dent in the universe, you’d have to be smart, persistent to the point of doggedness, and very lucky.