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Why haven’t European investors fully accepted the ‘failure is good’ mentality yet?

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With huge unemployment rates in countries like Spain, Greece and Portugal, coupled with risk-averseness and impractical education this leads to a circle of hopelessness. So you learn to be agile, to take it in your stride, to pivot based on the shortcomings of your competitors. It’s a great life lesson in any case.

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15 Entrepreneurs Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Name

Hearpreneur

The name works for me because 1) it is general enough to not lock me into a particular market segment 2) it is connects to my Texas roots as Featherston (without the e) is a family name and 3) it is a metaphor for my services as I help companies become more agile while stuck grounded in systems & processes. Photo Credit: Jenny Hargrave.

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What Greek Startups Can Teach the World

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Currently he’s thinking Chile, Saudi Arabia, Australia, Portugal and Brazil. When times get tough, startup founders might want to check what I call the “P-List” that Whitehill and Stavros Messinis, the co-founder of CoLab Athens, put together of lessons American startups can learn from their Greek counterparts: Persevere. Proactiveness.

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What Greek Startups Can Teach the World

ReadWriteStart

Currently he’s thinking Chile, Saudi Arabia, Australia, Portugal and Brazil. Check the P-List When times get tough, startup founders might want to check what I call the “P-List” that Whitehill and Stavros Messinis, the co-founder of CoLab Athens, put together of lessons American startups can learn from their Greek counterparts: Persevere.