I recently ran a crowd-funding campaign for forty days in an attempt to raise 40K. The money would have been spent on developing an ecommerce platform that lets consumers buy goods and services from small businesses trying to recover from a natural disaster. I didn’t raise the full amount so I received nothing. However, that’s not what motivated me to write this short article. It was the buzz phrase that I kept hearing from entrepreneurs and business consultants at networking events.
Somehow, everyone has agreed that entrepreneurs should fail early and fail often. What a bunch of nonsense. Come on, really! Let’s just fail, fail and fail some more. We love failing so much that we do it as often as we can. I think what everyone is trying to say is that we live in a world of determinism and not of design.
Recovery Pledge will soon connect you, a concerned consumer, with small businesses trying to get back on their feet after a disaster. By stabilizing the sales of small businesses immediately after a disaster – we will rapidly stabilize the economic engines of cities.
