Everywhere I look, read and interact recently people are talking about failure, in the context of the start-up / business world and it’s seriously refreshing. I will never forget going into a meeting with 50 young entrepreneurs and, according to them, not one of them was having a problem with their business! Astonishing and completely untrue. Thank f*uck times are changing!
There is absolutely nothing wrong with sharing failure, or percieved failure, and as we talk about such mistakes we are essentially sharing our experiences which others will learn from and hopefully excel in because of.
Not only is the excellent Mixergy doing an interview series on entreprenuers who have failed. But there is an awesome article in the financial times about failure too, which is worth a read.
If you have any thoughts on failure, if you have experiences or points for people (including myself) to learn from then please do share them!
For some time I have been following the inspiring website Mixergy. Mixergy is run by a guy called Andrew Warner who co-founded a website which $30million+ in annual sales, which is an incredible figure. Andrew now runs Mixergy which is a website that is dedicated to interviewing inspiring entrepreneurs from huge companies, including the likes of Groupon etc, in order to ensure that a new generation of entrepreneurs learn from the best.
Recently Andrew Warner realised that aspiring entrepreneurs can equally learn from other entrepreneurs who have not quite made it yet, those who may have ‘failed’ in some way or another, with the intention of seeing their experience as a positive thing that can be learnt from.
Last week I was interviewed by Andrew Warner, over Skype, in an interview which lasted an hour as he asked deep and relevant questions for his ‘failed’ series. I believe that this interview should go live over the next week or so and, as soon as it does I will point you in the right direction.
In all honesty it was pretty humbling that Andrew and his team would ask me to get involved. As you may be aware from www.somestartupsfail.com I have never been ashamed of telling stories of projects that I have been involved in which have gone wrong. I am consistently pushing forward as I work towards the ‘breakthrough’ project for me.
I will let you know as soon as this interview goes live!