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October 27, 2011 06:30 pm GMT

Keen On The Greatest Entrepreneurs Are Born To Deal With Failure (TCTV)

Ooyala Backlot Web-5Few people know failure better than venture capitalists. Even the most successful fail much more than they succeed and the best are those, likeVinod Khosla, who acknowledge that their successes are much rarer than their failures. Another venture capitalist well acquainted with failure isPeter Gardner, Managing Director ofWavepoint Ventures, a Menlo Park shop that primarily invests in software, medical technology and clean tech start-ups.I caught up with Peter earlier this week at the engagingFailConconference where he spoke on the Failure of Business Modelspanel. Weve had our fair share of failures, Gardner confessed to me, stressing that one of the greatest assets of Silicon Valley was its tolerance of failure. Sharing Ron Conways view onfailure, Gardner explained that rather than being born to succeed, great entrepreneurs are born to be able to deal with failure.

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