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Failure: The Blog 
February 2012
- Unfinished, But Inhabited
- The Success of Failure, via CNN
- Einstein Actually Had Excellent Grades
- The Physics of Discarded Paper
- The Power of Failing
January 2012
- Offensive Advertising, Increased Sales?
- I Sold Out For Millions, Then Worked At McDonald's
- Steve Jobs on Failure
- The Famous Western Failure
- Thank Goodness for Drug Addicts
December 2011
- It's a Wonderful Failure
- Stadium Destroyed, Reborn
- Failure to Trust the Astronauts
- Failure and the Baggy Pants Tradition
- Failure at The Happiest Place on Earth
- Saving What Was Lost
- FailureBank: A Social Learning Utility
November 2011
- A Thanksgiving Failure
- Harriet Tubman's Clever Lie
- The Failures of Lemieux
- Failed to Return a Text
- Admitting Failure
- A Leaders Job: Support Failure
October 2011
FailureBank: A Social Learning Utility
It’s not looking good for a new startup company called FailureBank. They haven’t raised enough funding yet—but is that the point?
One of the thousands of companies on KickStarter is about to run of time on their goal. From the website:
No matter what arena you find yourself in – whether you’re an entrepreneur, fully entrenched in the corporate world, or even still a student – FailureBank can help you overcome and learn from your failures on your path to success.
We’re building an online platform to help people like you visualize, conceptualize, and internalize the failures you experience. This visually engaging process will help you “track your path” to success, enabling you to identify exactly when, where, and how failures arose over a certain time period (whether that’s 2 months or 2 years). With tools built in to help you extract meaning from your experiences, FailureBank is sure to help you bounce back from your failures before they compound and turn into a tragedy – something that can’t be fixed.
This sounds like a great idea. But as of today, they aren’t even 10% of the way to their funding goal. It looks like FailureBank is going to fail to start.
One would think that these entrepreneurs won’t be deterred by this set back. If anything, the first listing in “FailureBank” may be “how we tried to use Kickstarter and failed.” Best of luck to this group. Their trying to do something hard. From their own mission:
FailureBank will begin to erase the negative connotation associated with failure. And as the FailureBank community redefines what failure means – a universal experience to learn from, not to fear – we’ll accelerate success not only for ourselves, but our country as a whole.
Kudos to you, FailureBank!
