Tonight I attended the Founders @ FAIL meetup, whose purpose is to celebrate and learn from failure by telling stories of startups that had a lot going for them but didn’t manage to make it. It’s a good idea, since failure can be a better teacher than success. College multi-player…
I came across this old quote from Goethe: Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward; they may be beaten, but they may start a winning game. It reminded me of an idea I’d heard about the relationship between failure and success observing that many major successes come after several failures….
Business Insider recently published this map of startups in New York. It’s interesting that most of them are in Manhattan since that borough is traditionally considered expensive. I’ve heard about a startup scene emerging in Brooklyn, but this map doesn’t reflect that.
I was recently inspired by a post on entrepreneurship from the New York Daily News. It has interesting points about startups as a career, and this one on working atmosphere caught my eye: If you thrive creating new approaches and despise hearing, “That’s the way we’ve always done it,” a…
Graham Lawlor has been has been leading the entrepreneurial meet-up Ultra Light Startups for two years. Today, he is launching one of his own. Lawlor describes BriteMap, a social directory of companies, as a LinkedIn for businesses, pairing up service providers with the companies that need them. He spoke with me about his project.