Building a Business
Don’t. Do. What. I. Did.
A former pro skier breaks down the lessons learned from two failed businesses.
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Building a Business
How to Diagnose Failure to Achieve Success
By sharing my own story, hopefully I can start to reframe our perception of depression and eliminate the stigma that prevents people from asking for help.
By Ben Angel
Thought Leaders
Time to Reinvent: 5 Tips for Boosting Creativity and Innovation
Here's how creativity and innovation can give you a competitive advantage.
Thought Leaders
Want to Lead a Tribe of Winners? Share Your Epic Fails!
A curious statistical study has proven that in order to succeed we should be learning from those who did not.
By Natasha Zo
Thought Leaders
How Steve Jobs Turned Setbacks Into Success
His story serves as a reminder that disasters also make the eventual triumph sweeter.
By Richard Koch
Business Ideas
6 Giant Companies That Nearly Flopped
Apple, Google, Tesla, and more were not obvious winners at first. Here's what nearly took them down.
By Jason Feifer
Building a Business
How to Reinvent Yourself During a Crisis
Lessons from Mikki Williams who has survived two major tragedies and is an object lesson in endurance.
By Wendy Marx
Business News
Quibi Is Shutting Down After 6 Disappointing Months
Like its content, Quibi's time in the spotlight was brief. 'Quibi is not succeeding,' founder Jeffery Katzenberg and CEO Meg Whitman acknowledged today.
By Michael Kan
Building a Business
7 Common Entrepreneurial Traps
When starting a business, the best offense is a good defense.
By Pat Flynn
Building a Business
Brandless Has a New Owner, and a New Mission. Can It Save Itself?
It was a once-hot company with a bad business model, like many of its direct-to-consumer peers. Now it's back as a quieter company focused on slower growth. Is this what DTC needs?
By Jason Feifer
Thought Leaders
What Entrepreneurs Can Learn from the Business Successes (and Failures) of Artists
Surprisingly, artists face many of the same career challenges as people in business.
Thought Leaders
Yola Robert Will Convince You It’s OK to ‘Suck At Life’
The up-and-coming podcaster and lifestyle blogger has learned that failing fast can also be the quickest way to success.
By Sarah Austin
Thought Leaders
4 Reasons Youth Can Be a Secret Weapon for Entrepreneurs
Being young as an entrepreneur is a blessing, not a curse. But only if you understand why it matters.
By Adam Guild
Thought Leaders
6 Signs Your Fear of Failure Is Holding You Back (Without You Even Knowing It)
Once you acknowledge that fear is the main thing that's holding you back, you can finally take control of your life.
By Kim Perell
Business News
What Can Marketers Learn From Quibi’s Failure?
Ultimately, it doesn't matter if you've got billions of dollars. You cannot spend your way out of a fundamental mistake.
Building a Business
The 4 Most Common Business Setbacks and How to Recover
Many entrepreneurs will face at least one of these over the course of their career.
Building a Business
Want to Be Successful? Stop Thinking About Failure
Here's how to avoid sabotaging yourself and your business.
Sustainability
My First Business Died – But It Helped Make My Next Company a Success
When government policies and decisions killed my buzzy New York startup, I learned to build a better (and more sustainable) operation.
By Jaime Getto
Business News
Twitter’s Anti-Spam Rules Foiled Planter’s Super Bowl Stunt
An attempt to go viral with Baby Nut backfired in spectacular fashion.
By Jon Fingas
Thought Leaders
MeUndies’ Founder Went to Prison and Befriended a Bank Robber. It Was Great for Business.
Relationships and lessons learned behind bars helped drive the company's future success.
By Liz Brody
Building a Business
3 Lessons About Failing the Right Way
What we can learn from the sudden demise of SponsorChange.
Thought Leaders
40 Inspirational Entrepreneurial Quotes
Whatever you've succeeded at or failed trying, somebody you respect said has something worth listening to on the topic.
By John Rampton
Thought Leaders
How to Turn Last Year’s Lemons Into Lemonade and Achieve Success in the New Year
Use setbacks as learning tools to achieve success in 2020.
Building a Business
How The Country’s Goofiest Baseball Team Made Millions
The Savannah Bananas' Jesse Cole turned an unloved team into the hottest ticket in town. Now he has a lesson for every CEO who wants to turn a company around: Stop doing what people hate.
Business News
The Biggest Tech Product Flops of the 2010s
The last decade introduced a wealth of game-changing technology to our lives. But along with it came some true disasters.
Thought Leaders
5 Beliefs About Success That Are Going to Help You Fail
If you still believe these five myths about success, you'll never achieve it.
By Debbie Allen
Building a Business
Can GoPro Reinvent Itself… By Going Back to Its Past?
The action-camera company grew fast, and crashed hard. Now it's trying to pick itself back up -- by thinking a lot smaller.
By Clint Carter