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Re:Ask HN: Can you be a successful entrepreneur without bein... by nreece on Thursday August 20, 2009 @08:36AM (#774864)
I wasn't referring to YC, but your personal endeavour with Viaweb. When you say that you were/are passionate about not failing, I was wondering if you rationally consider failure to be an essential catalyst for eventual success?!
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Re:Ask HN: Can you be a successful entrepreneur without bein... by andreyf on Thursday August 20, 2009 @06:39PM (#776525)
I was wondering if you rationally consider failure to be an essential catalyst for eventual success?!

I don't see any rational reason for failure to cause success. There might be a correlation, since failure might be correlated with experience, and experience with success.

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