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Failure

Fear of failure is so much worse than the failure itself.

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Josh Lachkovic
Jul 15, 2025
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I overindexed on fear of failure as a first-time founder and with hindsight this was a huge contributor to the businesses’ failure.

“Why did Wine List fail?”

It’s been a while since someone asked me this but it came up the other day in conversation.

There’s no singular reason why my old startup Wine List failed.

In the months after I closed that busin…

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