Comments on: The Best Entrepreneurs Know How To Fail Fast

By: How to woo an employee. (And be wooed back.) | The Ridejoy Blog

How to woo an employee. (And be wooed back.) | The Ridejoy Blog — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 15:54:25 +0000

[...] “hire slow and fire fast”, but for most startups, it feels more in line with the usual fail fast mentality to “hire fast… fire faster”. It’s only a small exaggeration. One [...]

By: Old Forest, New Trees » Blog Archive » Should nonprofit news operations pay development officers on commission?

Thu, 19 Jan 2012 09:46:45 +0000

[...] and helps organizations know when to pull the plug on bad ideas. It reminds everyone to be bold and fail fast. It gives managers the ability to tweak incentive structures in ways that encourage fundraising [...]

By: Update #1 to My Authority Site Project; Fail Quickly | Niche Pursuits

Update #1 to My Authority Site Project; Fail Quickly | Niche Pursuits — Wed, 14 Sep 2011 18:09:56 +0000

[...] So, overall I like the advice that other people have given to “fail quickly”. This simply means recognize when something is not working as hoped and stop throwing money at it. Try something else. There are lots of places that discuss the importance of “failing quickly”, and here is just one interesting article by Brad Feld: “The Best Entrepreneurs Know How to Fail Fast.” [...]

By: These ‘Fail Fast’ Guys Can Pry My Startup From My Cold, Dead Hands « Jeb Stone > Analytics PhD

Tue, 28 Jun 2011 04:21:24 +0000

[...] idea of “Fail Fast.” I thought Mark Suster had put this one to bed early last year, but amazingly it continues to gain momentum. Here’s why I’m not buying [...]

By: Andrew Yang » Companies have forgotten how to fail

Andrew Yang » Companies have forgotten how to fail — Mon, 25 Apr 2011 22:59:34 +0000

[...] entrepreneurs are familiar with the saying “fail quickly so you can improve sooner” or something similar. Many of the companies I’ve liked as a child seem to be stuck repeating the same [...]

By: sprocket

sprocket — Mon, 29 Nov 2010 14:27:00 +0000

Therefore, Fail Fast is saying; “what separates good entrepreneurs from bad entrepreneurs is the ability to recognize a stupid idea even after months of work, sunk costs and tested relationships and say “this isn’t going to work,” “this is stupid” and at that point stop or adapt, rather then stubbornly and stupidly continuing on. Good entrepreneurs are not stubborn and they don’t let their egos and identities get involved in their ideas, projects or businesses. They pursue the impossible, but when too many cards stack against them they have the experience or instinctive logic to stop or adapt what they’re doing and move on to something else, take what they’ve learned and succeed.

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pumps shoes — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 13:33:21 +0000

each of them had one success and one failure before I funded their third company, which was a huge success.

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Internet TV – Is Now The Time To Build New Networks? | b-roll.net — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 17:40:31 +0000

[...] The reasons these failed are instructive and manifold, but thankfully we failed fast. [...]

By: 11 Excuses Stopping You From Starting A Business

11 Excuses Stopping You From Starting A Business — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 18:25:22 +0000

[...] feedback, and keep it up! Yes, it’s true you might fail furiously, but hopefully you’ll fail fast and move [...]