Honda does.
It’s in their DNA.
Michael Jordan and Nike couldn’t do without it.
Bluefishtv.com too.
Disney used storyboards to fail.
Anyone looking to gain mastery needs to fail many, many times before they become a master. And anyone looking to embrace innovation must also welcome failure, because it’s the only way to get there.
But as we’re experiencing, it’s just not easy to get through the failure to the success. It never has been.
Ross McCulloch of the ThirdSectorLab interviewed the now famous (at least on Twitter) Janis Krums, who took the first photo of US Air Flight 1549 with his iPhone and posted it on twitpic.
The interview was conducted through Twitter on the ThirdSector blog. Interesting how many of the questions came from both old and old media. And how it was all done through tiny format Twitter and published on a long format blog. He was even asked the boxer or briefs question.
Is this a first? I don’t know.
Want to know what to do in this downturn — watch this LeWeb interview of the very honest, frank, and a bit crass, Morten Lund who was just declared personally bankrupt by courts in Copenhagen.
Mr. Lund, the ‘Rock-’n Roll’ entrepreneur, made $millions from the sale of Skype (new media) to EBay for $2.6 billion in 2005, But he says he’s not in it for the money.
Through his two venture capital firms, LundKenner, and LundXY, he currently owns 80+ startup companies all around the world. The result of his tremendous networking and self-promoting skills.
“At LundKenner we go beyond the classic venture approach. We do not believe in money as the sole purpose for success, but foremost the spirit of entrepreneurship and a vision for building great companies.”
Lund’s losses are the result of investing most of his personal wealth in Nyhedsavisen, (old media) a free Danish newspaper that shut down last August. Earlier in the year the paper had been the best-read paper in Denmark. The plan was to integrate the old media into the new with an online presence. They just didn’t make it. Their financial problems could have been affected by the falling value of the Icelandic kronur as the original partners were from Iceland.
Lund, 36, has been an entrepreneur since the age of 19, going against his mother’s wishes to go into shipping. His blog ‘It’s all about Luck,’ expresses his values for risk taking and failure. He’s instinctive, quick on his feet and not afraid. Very unusual for a European, who usually consider failure to be shameful. Not for this Scandinavian.
“The chances are bigger now than ever . . . technology is breaking through.”
And here are some of Warren Buffett views about risk.
We’re in a whole new era.
Janis Krums from Sarasota, Florida posted the first photo of the crash of U.S. Airways flight 1549 from his iPhone. This is from the Wall Street Journal–
The photo, which Mr. Krums posted online using a Twitter photo-sharing site, has been viewed more than 43,000 times.
Social media tools like Twitter -– which allows users to tap out 140-character status updates — have changed how breaking news events are recorded and covered. They made for on-the-ground reports from the Mumbai terror attacks in November, for example.
This is his advice on how to use Twitter.
Thanks Lee Brimlow for the link to this really cool site. I love Twitter already! (This should have been a tweet.)
I can’t believe I’m blogging my minutiea about my twits. Did I really write that?
I know, I know, I’ve not been too sure about Twittering. Sort of like how I felt about blogging. I’m just not too interested in the seemingly endless piles of minutiae about somone’s personal life. I don’t really care what you had for breakfast. How do people find time for this stuff??
But I originally started this blog mostly to learn about the software and now I realize the power of it. So Twitter might offer the same.
First off, I signed on with my full name – http://twitter.com/SusanFitzgerald. But after looking around I realized that lots of Twitterers had much shorter names. So I signed up again — http://twitter.com/susfitz.
Still not sure which is better but have started with susfitz. And then Scott Lackey welcomed me immediately! (His current blog posting is exactly how I feel.) I still don’t know how he found me so quickly, but I’m sure that’s one of the tricks I’ll learn.
The next thing he said to do was to get an icon fast. Twitter recommends using a picture of yourself. But when looking at the the other icons I realized that the photos all blend in together in the follower section and it was hard to differentiate. The simpler graphics were easier to identify. And I assume that standing out might have an advantage. So what you see above is what I’m using, for now.
And then SteveRothman sent me an great link to more Twitter info. I didn’t realize I had so many wonderful Twittering friends!
My first impression of Twitter is that it’s much more interesting than I thought. Twits can be very informative and expressive. It does feel more like having a conversation. Well, a very spaced out, unconnected conversation.
What are you doing?
To be continued . . .
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