Comments on: Share your great mistakes

By: Shailendra

Shailendra — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 05:41:30 +0000

Started my own web agency but realised you should have financial back up in your bank before jump in. But things got better now…

By: Billy Flynn

Billy Flynn — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 06:43:41 +0000

Telling a VC about my idea without a non disclosure agreement

1 year later while I was still getting it off the ground he appears as the CEO of a new company executing the idea I shared with him

By: Fluffy Links – Tuesday July 21st 2009 « Damien Mulley

Fluffy Links – Tuesday July 21st 2009 « Damien Mulley — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 04:04:23 +0000

[...] Something Ireland lacks. Share your great mistakes. [...]

By: Janis Mara

Janis Mara — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 20:54:06 +0000

Aw, Mike, that is the sweetest.

By: Ward Loockx

Ward Loockx — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 07:04:43 +0000

Sound familiar. I’ve been working on a project (web project) in my spare time and it was online but not finished yet (for google indexing), but after 2weeks of time a company launched a new website with the same idea, the motivation of working on my project was going down (since they attracted a large user base in a few weeks). But hey! Now somebody is testing and I can see the different benefits from a user perspective and use that knowledge to improve my project (maybe in the future the systems can communicate with each other to make it smarter and let the users be more happy about the service!). Jeff/others do you have any toughts/remarks/tips about these situations?

(this happend a few weeks ago)

Greets,
Ward

By: Mike Manitoba

Mike Manitoba — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 05:47:58 +0000

Didn’t have the nerve to tell Deanna I loved her when she left town in ‘94. Biggest mistake I ever made in journalism.

By: Kevin

Kevin — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 04:09:17 +0000

hahahaha

By: Joseph J. Slevin

Joseph J. Slevin — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 01:14:06 +0000

This would go in the believe it or not file. In 1989 I was talking with a friend about things I was hoping to do later in life. One was opening a used bookstore. I told her that since I like to drink coffee or something, I was always wanting to drink something when browsing books. I told her that I wanted to have a coffee shop or something etc., that people could buy while browsing. Well, she thought it was a great idea and started telling every book store she went into about it. She and her boyfriend took a trip between socal and the bay area, telling every bookstore owner they visited about the idea. Even the local book store had a coffee nook within weeks of her telling them. Wish I had kept that to myself and had done some digging on how to develop an idea. Just a thought that you need to trust whom you share and brainstorm ideas with and when you do, be ready to act on them yourself.

By: Joseph F.

Joseph F. — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 19:56:26 +0000

Taking a year off before going to law school instead of going straight after undergrad. I feel old and under constant pressure to compete against everyone even though I’m just a year older than everyone else.

By: Rob Hogan

Rob Hogan — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 19:13:50 +0000

I got married. Big Mistake…HUGE!!!!! But now I’m divorced, so I got better.

By: Matthew Terenzio

Matthew Terenzio — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 19:05:21 +0000

I believed that the newspaper industry would one day understand the web.

By: Kenton Larsen

Kenton Larsen — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 18:07:29 +0000

I printed 5,000 corporate brochures with a typo in them.

I proofread more closely now.