I’ve never understood Silicon Valley’s obsession with failure. Many investors and entrepreneurs out there believe that you should fail a few times before you succeed. That the people worth funding are the people who’ve failed a few times. I’ve heard from a few VC who won’t fund an entrepreneur until they’ve failed at least once. I don’t get that.

[…] Failure is part of the path to success? This industry’s obsession with failure has got to stop. I don’t know when it became cool or useful, but the industry has been steeping in it for so long that it’s become normal to assume failure comes before success.

Quelle: Failure is overrated, a redux – (37signals)

Gute Argumentation gegen das hierzulande oft den USA angedichtete Credo „Nur wer einmal Konkurs gemacht hat wird ein richtiger Unternehmer“ …