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Re:Why Chance Encounters Work by kj1210 on Tuesday November 22, 2011 @08:38PM (#3268352)
As I mentioned in the posts comments, one thing the valley has that many cities don't is a completely different perspective on failure. In the valley, if you don't have a successful exit on your startup, no one jumps on you in a bad way. Everyone understands the challenge and knows you learned from it. First thing people say are, "So, what's next?".

This allows people to try things more and take risk. Something that our Michigan and Detroit culture don't have built into our makeup. It's definitely changing and sites like GrowDetroit and their community are making big strides in changing this mentality.

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Re:Why Chance Encounters Work by jordanskole on Tuesday November 22, 2011 @09:04PM (#3268421)
This 10000000%

I just got interviewed in the State News and the reporter kept asking me these same questions about getting over failure. I told her I have never failed, not even one time. from my beef jerky enterprise in high school all through college, I just made adjustments.

I gave her an anecdote about selling pink and yellow lemonade, and if i was selling way more pink than yellow, yellow lemonade didnt 'fail' my feelings wernt hurt, it wasnt a personal feat that made me rise up above it. I just adjust.

She didnt really like the answer so asked me again, and none of it made it in the paper.

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Re:Why Chance Encounters Work by BallinBige on Wednesday November 23, 2011 @12:47AM (#3268945)
you are a warrior, hustler and have the 'can do' attitude towards business. big ups
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Re:Why Chance Encounters Work by growdetroit on Wednesday November 23, 2011 @01:22PM (#3271020)
<3
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