Good Failure Versus Bad Failure
One widespread conviction in Silicon Valley is that failure is something to be celebrated, in the sense that failure is a requirement for success. Good VCs and entrepreneurs learn from their failures, the story goes, and (ideally) go on to create great successes. There's even an annual conference in San Francisco that celebrates failure -- Failcon ("Embrace Your Mistakes. Build Your Success.") So I was startled to hear that new NASA Chief Technologist Bobby Braun plans to have the space agency celebrate failure.
13 August 2010•2 mins read
