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6 Entrepreneurs Share the Bad Idea That Led to a Success Founders reveal the mistakes that led to better solutions.

By Entrepreneur Staff

This story appears in the May 2018 issue of Entrepreneur. Subscribe »

Michele Marconi

Good ideas are the product of bad ideas -- the failure leads us to success. So we asked six entrepreneurs: What was a bad idea that led to a great one?

Related: The Simplest Test of Whether Your Business Idea Is Good or Bad

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