Learning From Rejection

I used to think making mistakes meant you were weak. So when I

bombed my first startup pitch, I rewrote the same deck five times.

And pitched it to twenty more investors. Same approach, same rejection.

Then my mentor told me successful founders fail on purpose to see what questions investors

ask. I realized I wasn't learning from experience, I was just

repeating it with minor tweaks. So I started asking investors what problems they actually

wanted solved. Within three weeks, I had two term sheets. My original idea

was never the problem. I was so focused on not making the same