Yesterday was the deadline for submissions to Seedcamp. We applied.

The interesting discussion came up afterwards: Should we keep it quiet and just publish it if we succeed possibly sparing ourselves the “shame of not succeeding”?

One of the problems is naturally fear of failure, but even larger is “what will others say if we fail at it”? Well after sleeping it over the answer is pretty simple. We can’t succeed all the time. There is no success without many failures on the road. And eventually we should cope and talk about them openly and learn from them. Sooner the better.

Accidentally I came across an interview with Randy Komisar in which he speaks how most important differentiator of Sillicon Valley is its ability to deal with failures and how it forgives when things don’t come out as expected.

Well, if environment here has obsession with failures, that is its problem, not ours. The only way to change this attitude in Europe and more so in Slovenia is to start behaving differently. Starting with ourselves.