For every successful start-up there are many that have crashed and burned. But rather than treat failure as a taboo topic, many leaders in the start-up community say it should be embraced as a valuable learning experience.
FailCon was started in 2009 for technology entrepreneurs, investors, designers and developers to come together and learn from theirs and others failures.
With the next FailCon in San Francisco on in October, and following on from an event in Sydney in May, here’s a clip from last year’s event in the US.
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