{"id":5703,"date":"2011-05-22T01:03:59","date_gmt":"2011-05-21T23:03:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/?p=5703"},"modified":"2012-12-12T15:58:16","modified_gmt":"2012-12-12T14:58:16","slug":"failing-has-to-be-accepted-but-not-encouraged","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/?p=5703","title":{"rendered":"Failure has to be accepted, but not encouraged"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tonight in Paris, at dinner with @loic @geraldine and @ninavarsavsky, we spoke about attitudes towards failure in USA and Europe. \u00a0In Europe it&#8217;s still terrible to fail and that is bad because failure is an essential part of success (think of all the sperm that fail to make a child). \u00a0But in Silicon Valley, failure is becoming too much of the opposite: \u00a0too accepted, people are not trying hard enough, too many start ups are getting funded as if VC&#8217;s knew there were bound to fail but went ahead anyway. \u00a0In Europe now we are more like in Silicon Valley in 2006 when <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fon.com\">Fon<\/a> got funded. \u00a0Back then it was not that easy to get started. \u00a0 And that may not be all that bad. \u00a0Failure has to be accepted, but not encouraged!<\/p>\n<div id=\"mainphotoarea\"><\/div><div class=\"theme-buttons\"><div class=\"fb-like\" data-href=\"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/?p=5703\" data-send=\"false\" data-layout=\"box_count\" data-width=\"71\" data-show-faces=\"false\" data-font=\"arial\" data-locale=\"en_US\"><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tonight in Paris, at dinner with @loic @geraldine and @ninavarsavsky, we spoke about attitudes towards failure in USA and Europe. \u00a0In Europe it&#8217;s still terrible to fail and that is bad because failure is an essential part of success (think of all the sperm that fail to make a child). \u00a0But in Silicon Valley, failure [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[222,70],"tags":[631,731,728],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5703"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5703"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5703\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6463,"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5703\/revisions\/6463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}