succeeding

Whenever a startup we rejected seems to be succeeding, we go back and try to figure out why we rejected them.

"- Merchant concludes LivingSocial taking more of a Zappos approach to stand out, and is succeeding.

Fewer than 1 in 10 companies we work with even attempts to "build security in from the start", and far fewer come close to succeeding.

After reading the article, I just realized that there are two kinds of failures: succeeding and subsequently failing, or just failing outright.

But it is not meaningful, in my view, to tell entrepreneurs to run their ventures with the aim of solving social problems as opposed to that of succeeding in a marketplace.

A strong education does not necessarily imply you know how to apply it, and there's certainly a long history of people without that advantage succeeding.

That always seemed to me a bandwagon feature, like Microsoft's SkyDrive: they saw DropBox succeeding, they figured it would be easy to emulate, and they learned otherwise when they tried it.

Certainly, it is positioned as an investment by educators, and it is probably true for science & engineering degrees, but do students approach it that way?I have a liberal arts degree from an "elite private university", and I can tell you that the school's approach was to give someone like me everything they could possibly need to succeed, but to leave it up to me to do the actual succeeding.