Dreaming of success? Then study failure - because "oops" is the mantra of champions. That was the take-away from FailCon 2010, which brought almost 500 entrepreneurs to San Francisco's Hotel Kabuki to ...

Failcon, a Silicon Valley conference focused on stories of failure, was so successful last year that's it's back again in 2010. Which means it either failed to fail or succeeded at failure, depending ...

Cass Phillipps, has witnessed more flameouts than an American Idol. The San Francisco entrepreneur started FailCon, the first conference ever to ask successful founders, investors, designers and ...

Advice for the just-failed entrepreneur, from computer scientist Anna Patterson: Know when it's over. Acknowledge you're grieving and depleted emotionally and physically. Hire a therapist and a ...

Coming up October 24 in San Francisco is the next FailCon— a conference that celebrates failure and its lessons — much like Silicon Valley where more than 90% of ventures fail. The organizers Cass ...

FailCon is a winning endeavour. Billed as a one-day conference for entrepreneurs, investors, developers, and designers, it unabashedly celebrates failure, urging its attendees to "start exchanging ...

A lot of people would argue that there are 3 key elements to creating an environment that breeds innovation: bright and talented people, patient money that’s capable of taking risks and an environment ...

The old saying goes, "If at first you don't succeed, try, try again." Fortunately, FailCon got it right on its first try. The one-day Silicon Valley conference is now in its third year and expanding ...

Entrepreneurs gathered in Silicon Valley this week to celebrate — not the thrill of success — but the agony of defeat. At FailCon, PayPal co-founder Max Levchin talked about how he failed repeatedly ...

In Silicon Valley failure is often seen as success as entrepreneurs learn from their mistakes and pivot their startups to try again and get it right. There’s even a dedicated conference for failure ...