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A startup's best friend? Failure (cnn.com)
5 points by Elfan on Feb 28, 2007 | hide | past | favorite | 5 comments



When posting this I managed to create a state where the title was displayed as "A startup's best friend? FailureA startup's best friend? Failure" but if I clicked on edit in the form it was only "A startup's best friend? Failure". I am not sure how to reproduce.


Here's why that defect occurred, FTA:

"Where old-economy giants once boasted of running 'zero-defects' operations, today's successful Internet businesses embrace defects as a way to get things right."

pg knows _exactly_ what he's doing ;)


It's not a bug, it's a feature! :)


I dont know. It's ok for a turnaround company, or a dispassionate outsider. Not for someone who is in the grind. see my thread http://news.ycombinator.com/comments?id=1464


see my thread: http://news.ycombinator.com/comments?id=1464




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