Posts tagged "business 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'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.

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.

Jacine Greenwood's ‘overnight’ success story with Roccoco Botanicals has taken decades of hard work, and her first business, Eclogite, actually failed. 

Great discoveries and new inventions can arise by accident, but people need time to experiment — a luxury many modern organisations don't allow.

Blackberry lost its market share to Apple and Google because it fostered a fixed rather than growth mindset.

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.

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. Risk-taking is essential to discovering your industry's next big innovation. 

Is there a common tie between all the reasons startups fail? One ‘core reason’ that fuels all the others which entrepreneurs can learn from?

Look at the history of any successful entrepreneur, and you’ll spot a bloody trail of significant failures dotted behind them.

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.