http://www.triplepundit.com/2009/12/silicon-valley-to-copenhagen-its-ok-to-fail-if-you-do-it-right/ Business, Better. Since 2005 Fri, 10 Feb 2012 07:33:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.triplepundit.com/2009/12/silicon-valley-to-copenhagen-its-ok-to-fail-if-you-do-it-right/comment-page-1/#comment-22758 Tom Larsen Mon, 21 Dec 2009 11:49:48 +0000 http://www.triplepundit.com/?p=22062#comment-22758 The history of striking out and possibly failing IS the history of California. It dates back to why "prospectors" came to California during the largest migration in history. Now it is embedded in California and expresses itself most visibly in Silicon Valley and Hollywood, both places where taking chances, thinking big and possibly failing, dusting one's self off and going again are completely acceptable. Howard Hughes, William Randolph Hearst, Bill Hewlitt and David Packard, Samuel Goldwyn, Louis B. Mayer, the list of industry titans that took big leaps, in all sorts of business efforts is phenomenally long. It's a cultural difference not often recognized in the rest of the U.S., but, very much so in the rest of the world. The history of striking out and possibly failing IS the history of California. It dates back to why “prospectors” came to California during the largest migration in history. Now it is embedded in California and expresses itself most visibly in Silicon Valley and Hollywood, both places where taking chances, thinking big and possibly failing, dusting one's self off and going again are completely acceptable. Howard Hughes, William Randolph Hearst, Bill Hewlitt and David Packard, Samuel Goldwyn, Louis B. Mayer, the list of industry titans that took big leaps, in all sorts of business efforts is phenomenally long. It's a cultural difference not often recognized in the rest of the U.S., but, very much so in the rest of the world.

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