On failure - Introduction to success - Examples
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This article was taken from the May 2011 issue of Wired magazine. Be the first to read Wired's articles in print before they're posted online, and get your hands on loads of additional content by subscribing online . " Twitter itself was a bit of a side project. You could say it was a mistake that worked out very well for us." So begins Biz Stone's masterclass to MBA students at the Said Business School in Oxford . It's a dark Monday afternoon in November, and, as part of the annual Silicon Valley Comes to Oxford programme, and alongside other accomplished founders such as LinkedIn 's Reid Hoffman, mydeco's Brent Hoberman and Plink's Mark Cummins, the Twitter creative director is inspiring the audience by openly admitting to having failed.
Fail to succeed (Wired UK)
FailCon: How to fail gracefully with a startup
Most conferences celebrate business successes. At the second annual FailCon event in San Francisco, the stories are all about how to fail gracefully with a startup. The point isn’t to teach people to fail but to help others learn from your own failures.
L’importance de l’échec dans la vie de l’entrepreneur par Gilles Babinet à la FailConf
Tout est parti de la réflexion de Loïc Le Meur lors de son intervention au Tech Crunch Remix sur la différence majeure entre la Sillicon Valley et la France : la philosophie d’entreprendre. Et son influence sur la gestion de l’échec. Un boulet qu’on traine en France, une expérience pour progresser, complètement intégré dans la vie de l’entrepreneur de l’autre côté de l’Atlantique.
J’ai bien apprécié cette “version 0” de la Fail Conference organisée par Kahn & Associés, TechCrunch France et Silicon Sentier, et animée conjointement par Blaise Vignon (Microsoft France), Julien Codorniou (Microsoft… et bientôt Facebook) et Roxanne Varza (TechCrunch France). C’était une première du genre, suggérée par Loic Lemeur lors de son intervention le 16 novembre 2010 dans le TechCrunch Remix de Paris. La conférence avait lieu dans la salle de conférence du siège de Microsoft France à Issy les Moulineaux. Voici les pointeurs sur la vidéo de la conférence en un seul morceau, sur le flux Twitter associé ainsi que sur mes photos de l’événement sur Darqroom .
Les leçons collectives de l'échec entrepreneurial
The worst moments are your best opportunity
That's how we judge you and how we remember you. You are presumed to be showing us your real self when you are on deadline, have a headache, are facing a customer service meltdown, haven't had a good night's sleep, are facing an ethical dilemma, are momentarily in power, are caught doing something when you thought no one else was looking, are irritable, have the opportunity to extract revenge, are losing a competition or are truly overwhelmed.
Experimenting is a way to succeed
19 Mar 2011 A presentation by James Birchler ( @jamesbirchler ), Engineering Director at IMVU (a social game and entertainment site) explains how to successfully apply lean startup principles to product development :Web Ink Now: When failure is cheap, why not give it a go?
My daughter and many of her friends went through the process of applying to university this year. In my day, with paper applications, we applied to our top choice, a few "reach" schools (selective schools we were less likely to be accepted to) and a "safety" (one highly likely to accept us for admission). It was a pain in the butt to write to each school to get their paper admission form and type out each application individually. Today, with information on college Web sites and electronic applications, students zip off applications quickly because most of the information is stored as electronic files.
This guest post is by Björgvin Benediktsson of Audio Issues. The biggest insecurity we bloggers face is the question of whether anybody is actually going to buy our product. We can’t give away our content forever, and those Google ads are hardly going to pay the bills. That’s why every blogger should offer his or her own product. You can recommend other products without seeing a noticeable return. The biggest return on effort is from your own product, whether it’s an ebook, a service, or a piece of software.
