25 Best Startup Failure Post-Mortems of All Time | ChubbyBrain Blog.

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Richard Branson – Richards Blog – Five secrets to business success – Virgin.

Successful entrepreneurs have many things in common. They work hard, are born leaders and can smell a bad investment from a mile away. Do you have what it takes?

Are You Really an Entrepreneur? | Grasshopper Group.

What went wrong? The problems that hosed Yahoo go back a long time, practically to the beginning of the company. They were already very visible when I got there in 1998. Yahoo had two problems Google didn’t: easy money, and ambivalence about being a technology company.

What Happened to Yahoo.

TED (Technology Education Design)

The mission of TED Technology Education Design is to promote “ideas worth spreading.” And as such, there is plenty of material that entrepreneurs – folks definitely interested in spreading their ideas – can find inspiring in the recordings available on TEDs website.

via 10 Inspiring TED Talks for Startups.