Alejandro Suarez Sanchez-Ocana. TIME-sector employer since 1998, CEO of Group Publispain and the network of blogs Entertainment Networks SL, President of Inversora Foley, director and Founding Partner of Yes.fm, adviser and investor in several companies for innovation, new technologies and the Internet.
Blessed failure
We are in a society where failure is very negative, possibly too, and personally I think there's that relative failure entrepreneur.
In my experience the failure (in a project, a company in a position ...) need not necessarily be negative, it is something more often as necessary as positive.
The most enterprising young people in Spain just before the failure to take different paths 2; about what still trying, others look for a job and forget about the romantic idea of undertaking.
I think that any of those 2 options are bad, the key is knowing which is best suited to your life time, your position and your profile. Do not be a good entrepreneur is not bad, operationally there are people who have a profile to work in a large corporation to manage teams and conducting positions, and that is very positive. There are people who do not have wood to be waged, and wants to launch at all costs. Both cases are good, the key is that you know, you see yourself and choose your path, and if so, that once elected try to be good, and if possible the best in you.
In an environment of entrepreneurs, many times has been driven to failure to persons who have brilliant careers and jobs, they did not have that profile, the wood of an entrepreneur, and in view of its success to third parties have sometimes been forced to abandon a launch career success and going to fail. The most recent case I saw a director of a newspaper, which, being a journalist of prestige was over controlling and managing a huge corporation to which he belonged, but that did not understand. Just wanted to rewrite, leaving those responsibilities, but he felt morally bound by gratitude to those who appointed him and the "failure" to return to its natural site.
The failure does not sell in Spain, the losers are socially aside, and that clashes with other conceptions of failure in other cultures. In USA for example, when a young entrepreneur needs capital, presenting a pair of previous failures is a positive sign. Of course nobody wants to live in failure, but the experience and failure as a positive turning point. A good friend, and better person, Business Angel in Miami, of which invest in U.S. and Latin America up to 7 figures, I commented a few days ago by telephone and the failure has already become a requirement in times of economic difficulty as the Today. "Will I leave my money in your hands?. Have you had to manage numbers and ever?. Have you ever swum against before you? "I strongly agree with that thought. I always stay quiet if the entrepreneur I like and I see that it has failed to advance any initiative but has lived that experience and have learned from it, in a way that failure is the pillar upon which seeks to build a success. I have no doubt that if you've lived past and difficulties, if you come back you're caught not new, you know where the mistake again and be more prepared to face the challenge that people have not experienced a previous failure.
Something that is implicit in the U.S. in the topic of Self-Made Man, the man himself. In the Anglo-Saxon culture failure is not rewarded, but it is tolerated as part of the system, and that fails is not sentenced to life imprisonment.
Other cultures, like the Japanese for example, not only do not understand success without failure, but also in some ways is not well seen, it is up to some extent "a stroke of luck" get straight to succeed without a previous failure . It is morally necessary to a turning point.
Aside from cultural differences, I always encourage and try to launch a second and a third time to pursue your dream, to create a business and achieve your goals, and now more than ever because we live in a special moment, that new technologies such as vehicle facilitating such figure of the entrepreneur, something that is much more complicated in other sectors such as industry, the traditional firm and so on. But I think we also need to know when to stop. If you've undertaken years and reap failure, you must also think that "perhaps it is not yours," and that is not derogatory, is a key available, finding the gap that exists in the insurance company for you, and inside it desarrollarte to the best of your ability, but always with ambition and effort.
The problem of failure is when you do not agree, do not acknowledge internally and not pass the line-sometimes hard-to be able to learn from it. Launch and fail is experience, the real failure is not daring to try to get where they once dreamed it would arrive.
Mario Dehter, the only person who has seen this draft before being published (and I believe it is the first time that I have shown one before putting it online) and that does too many dates wrote a post about the failure, I quite rightly emphasizes that " Failure is part of the wonderful act of living with success. "
Usually when we talk about ourselves we tend to minimize and somehow justify our failures in a job or a venture into our curriculum. Many people in the relativizes a quick summary, last on tiptoe, or mentioned in summarizing his career with an inconsequential sentence or the typical "was not the time", "the circumstances were not favorable", "we had bad luck" the reality is ... I, if I look back, I learned more from my failures than my successes, few, and I think that in the bad moments is when I have wrought my profile as an entrepreneur and as a businessman, and finally and most importantly, as person.
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I want the problem is obsessed with success. I for example I think I have succeeded in life with my wife and my daughter, the work is important and I would win, but everything and leaving the skin in the Curro; not know if you're dead relative.
Besides the success is relative. Tb I encourage you all to engage and not to follow my example, or anything that, but for everyone to build their future with their sweat and not with the "tit" for a large company. In this country there are already too many vague;))
Excellent post. Alejandro a hug.
The valuation of the failure is a cultural issue, as you say, and we are in a very dualistic culture where if one thing is not white is black.
're Also agree that not only is valued poorly failure in Spain, but that success sometimes is frowned upon and underestimated.
One more point in learning everything there is a part of trial and error, error or failure and help us improve our learning, makes us more efficient.
Very interesting entry, a greeting.
If it is true ... Raul success is underestimated, especially if it is very successful and is a local player. It is often valued more out of it.
The truth is that the same word carries negative connotations because for many people, when they do not think we should be so. A failure indicates that at least you've tried.
@ Jordi Bufí, I very much agree. Failure is not trying especially when you have qualities and possibilities for this.
Alejandro good,
No doubt I also believe that failure can aportarte as much experience and face-to reencontrarte in many cases with problems instead of dealing with "new".
A greeting
os brick saving my previous posts here on this blog, only saying that the post comes as the ring finger on my personal experiences of recent years
Thank you for the approach Alejandro, I always knew that I was right with regard to entrepreneurship, and failure to stand up again ... but read the lines of another even more encouraged me to proceed ...
Merry Christmas to everyone!
Hi Alexander, this contribution is very good words about the failure as a part of winning! And regarding "Have you had to manage numbers and ever?" I identified a lot, DQ in my case came to work for a while in computer consulting and being young had a dependent important, then I have come to believe, "DQ not ask 24k euros to the bank and try "," If you can not achieve the 24k in two years, you should dedicate to something else "," Probart take it for yourself, and do not be intimidated in the amount of money but, as some day 1M lift some of BA / VC "," you do not have q discourage the future of your family, if some day get a business, you are going to depend on many families. "
Q I think in the end there are no perfect words, nothing is safe, comes from oneself every decision we make, and are undertaking or to work for another, or to volunteer to music, etc, etc, are all Good decisions. I stretched a little, and I want to make a very good video that insurance to readers or entrepreneurs who are trying them may like, is Silicon Valley, but never mind, it does not cover the whole world
http://ecorner.stanford.edu/authorMaterialInfo.html?mid=996 (is transcribed into English and is very good, especially the first sentence and home runs!)
Finally I do not need the loan DQ I'm going to Valencia where the cost of living is much cheaper than in Madrid ... and there are beach!
Alejandro greetings and all, I am going there in a follow twitter!
Surely the hip-hop is not your favorite genre of music but I recommend that you try listening to this theme (especially what he says, of course)
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PS: I have searched Alejandro item in yes.fm but I have not found the artist (Morodo)
Alejandro good thoughts.
It is curious to see the different ways a failure in every country.
As Dani said .... I too am a successful businessman with two children precious and the same woman after 10 years (if it is a success in these times)
One premise in my life is contentarte with what you have to know at every moment and enjoy it.
The success is ephemeral and often serves to cloud reality.
Good festivals.
@ Bufí Jordi, Jordi Thank you, he did not know the artist! , We have searched and we see that it is because they autoedita with the stamp "Taifa records" ... did not know him and still do not have it. What swayed.
In the future we want to develop a way for such artists can easily upload their content to yes.fm
The Raft of the Medusa, Théodore Géricault box (1819) help to think that the lack of enthusiasm and ambition to make it a reality-is-more shocking that the failure.
The music is not "noise" because it combines a harmonious balance, sounds and silences, as well as undertake is not "run" because it implies enthusiasm, frustrations and learning.
Thanks Alejandro: devote your time to reflect on these aspects of success make you "more successful" is like turning on the light in a dark room, "which is" dark "because many stay with your eyes closed.
[...] I think it is interesting to see how this failure Luis has not made that throw in the towel and we know that is preparing new projects, in this case [...]
Alejandro good post!
I keep it and certainly I agree totally that Spain entrepreneurs are not very good and let's talk about whether or fail. But that does not detract from that in my personal case is a big thorn (not the entrepreneur) I want to remove some day.
good holiday!
nico
It said "The Pocero" that no one can say is that if no employer has failed at least once. But, unfortunately, as we know, in Spain entrepreneurship is frowned upon and what is worse failure.
Complete and convincing post with which I totally agree. And so I was always with the approaches in this direction from my friend @ mariodehter
I usually say, before you climb on a car, half in jest, half seriously, I'm going quieter with a driver who has already had an accident because you know where your limits are.
On the other hand, I believe that all professionals with a minimum of responsibility are (or should be) constantly failing and learning. We tested production models, we make forward-looking markets, we recruit people, buying and renting material resources ... And we were wrong often, we become wiser with the experience and come back to make new decisions, probably more accurate.
In short, and recovering a recent sentence of Louis Martin Cabiedes "the failure of the entrepreneur can be forgiven and even appreciate, but the only thing that has no apology is the abandonment"