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A SXSW Recap – Tracey Halvorsen Talks “Failures”

March 18, 2010

Our panel “We F*cked Up. Now What. Exploring Failure, Together,” with friends from Happy Cog and Wil Reynolds of Seer Interactive went great last weekend at the South by Southwest Interactive (SXSWi) conference. I won’t say I wasn’t nervous, we were in a HUGE ballroom at the Austin Convention Center, easily seating [...]

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Exploring Failure – Part 4 (Failure Sucks)

March 11, 2010

As my final post in preparation for my upcoming panel at SXSW, “We F*cked Up. Now What. Exploring Failure, Together,” with our pals at Happy Cog and Wil Reynolds of Seer Interactive, I bring you “Failure Sucks”. Listen folks, there are just going to be some times when there is no rainbow after the storm, [...]

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Exploring Failure – Part 3 (Smells Like Failure)

March 9, 2010

Here is part three of an ongoing series exploring failures in preparation for my upcoming panel at SXSW, “We F*cked Up. Now What. Exploring Failure, Together,” with our pals at Happy Cog and Wil Reynolds of Seer Interactive.
In this post, I am considering this question:  Can you smell failure coming?
You should watch for red flags [...]

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Exploring Failure – Part 2 (Failure is the New Success)

March 8, 2010

I was reading about Van Halen’s brown M&M® line item in their contract and being reminded of how brilliant it was. For your reference – wikipedia provides the following explanation:
Van Halen had a notable effect on the modern rock music tour with their use of the concert technical contract rider. They were one of the [...]

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Exploring Failure – Part 1

February 23, 2010

I was invited to participate in a panel at this year’s SXSW Interactive Festival titled “We f*cked up. Now what? Exploring failure, together” with our pals at Happy Cog and Wil Reynolds of Seer Interactive. In preparation for this panel, I am going to be exploring some of the concepts here, and I invite you [...]

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