The Very Failed Blog

The year 2015 is calling, and it has an opportunity for you! A new way to live that 4 hour work week you’ve been dreaming of. It’s called Amazon FBA. And it’s the wet dream of every rent-seeking scumbag who wants to make money while providing the minimum possible value. Grift in dollars, spend in Read more

Why Focus on Failure? Entrepreneurs like to stay positive. It’s what keeps us going. If we think about failure at all, it’s to dismiss it with canned phrases like “fail fast, learn faster.” We give lip service to the value of failure, without examining the mechanics of how failure drives value. We prefer to focus Read more

So you want to buy an online business? Good for you. You have courage and optimism, fine qualities in an entrepreneur. Qualities that also set you up to lose your shirt. Entrepreneurs’ natural optimism often causes us to overlook risks. We think we’re being “conservative” when we’re actually making insane gambles. That was the case Read more

AKA My Ecommerce Book of Job Online business, baby! It’s the future. Everything is online, and everyone wants to make that internet money. Tired of your office job? Why not start drop shipping? Those Instagram kids did it in like 3 weeks. From zero to hero with no capital, no skills, and no knowledge. Fuck, Read more

“What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger.” “You either win or you learn.” “It’s the cost of tuition!” These are mantras you hear in entrepreneurship a lot. They imply that we learn from our mistakes. That we become wiser. It’s a comforting idea. Entrepreneurship is hard, and the inevitable failures are a miserable pill to Read more