Why founders should expect and embrace failure
Tracey Warren believes founders shouldn’t be avoiding failure. Because any business that survives, even if its form is completely unrecognisable from how it started, is never a failure.
Australia “far from the peak” of business failures as slowing consumption hits struggling enterprises
Australia's business failure rate is only set to rise over the next year, analytics firm CreditorWatch states, as persistently high interest rates and lower consumption squeeze enterprises struggling to maintain profitability.
A lesson on the importance of failure from a defeated NBA champion
An NBA basketball player gave an unexpected lesson in failure that every startup founder should remember: you don’t have to win all the time.
My first business failed, but today my company turns over $4 million. Here’s what failure taught me
Jacine Greenwood's ‘overnight’ success story with Roccoco Botanicals has taken decades of hard work, and her first business, Eclogite, actually failed.
Experimentation and failure fuel innovation, so let’s give each other more time
Great discoveries and new inventions can arise by accident, but people need time to experiment — a luxury many modern organisations don't allow.
A growth versus fixed mindset often means the difference between success and failure
Blackberry lost its market share to Apple and Google because it fostered a fixed rather than growth mindset.
“It just happened so quickly”: How COVID-19 caused this co-working space to close its doors for good
Depo8 came into the COVID-19 crisis off the back of a failed sale, and co-founder Jodi Imam knew almost immediately it wouldn't survive the pandemic.
‘Million-dollar mindset’: What entrepreneur Zee Der-Levine wishes she knew when she started
Entrepreneur Zee Der-Levine has launched three businesses, and experienced her fair share of failure. Here's what she wishes she knew when she started out.
If you’ve never experienced failure, you’re not taking enough risks
If you've never experienced failure, you're not taking enough risks. Risk-taking is essential to discovering your industry's next big innovation.
Beating the statistics: The underlying reason so many startups fail
Is there a common tie between all the reasons startups fail? One ‘core reason’ that fuels all the others which entrepreneurs can learn from?
You can’t have success without failure: What business owners can learn from Walt Disney, Steve Jobs and JK Rowling
Look at the history of any successful entrepreneur, and you’ll spot a bloody trail of significant failures dotted behind them.
Lessons on failure from Shark Tank investors: How to take control of your business when things aren’t quite going right
Some of the sharks from Shark Tank about failure, the times they’ve seen things go wrong in business, and how they kept moving forward.