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  2. 15 Historic Failures by Successful Billionaires - AOL

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    The business people you look up to as geniuses had plenty of failures on the way to success ... Before that was the failure of the expensive Lisa, the first mouse-driven PC, which sold only ...

  3. Survivorship bias - Wikipedia

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    In finance, survivorship bias is the tendency for failed companies to be excluded from performance studies because they no longer exist. It often causes the results of studies to skew higher because only companies that were successful enough to survive until the end of the period are included.

  4. List of biggest box-office bombs - Wikipedia

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    The following is a partial list of films that lost the most money, based on documented losses or estimated by expert analysis of various financial factors such as the production budget, marketing and distribution costs, gross box-office receipts and other ancillary revenues.

  5. List of failed and overbudget custom software projects

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    Permanent failures [ edit ] Because software, unlike a major civil engineering construction project, is often easy and cheap to change after it has been constructed, a piece of custom software that fails to deliver on its objectives may sometimes be modified over time in such a way that it later succeeds—and/or business processes or end-user ...

  6. Top 10 Biggest Investment Failures Ever - AOL

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    The biggest bank failure in history, according to assets, Washington Mutual won its spot in the list of infamy when it went out of business and was purchased by JPMorgan Chase in 2008. Once the ...

  7. 11 Millionaires and Billionaires on How Failure Can Help You ...

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    This is why we compiled quotes from millionaires and billionaires on failure so that you can see how setbacks are essential when trying to get rich. Read More: Warren Buffett: 6 Best Pieces of ...

  8. List of commercial failures in video games - Wikipedia

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    As a hit-driven business, the great majority of the video game industry's software releases have been commercial disappointments.In the early 21st century, industry commentators made these general estimates: 10% of published games generated 90% of revenue; [1] that around 3% of PC games and 15% of console games have global sales of more than 100,000 units per year, with even this level ...

  9. 7 epic failures for Mark Cuban — and 7 lessons for you - AOL

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    Cuban is an example of how even the richest and most famous people in the world fail. But his story shows that the right response to failure can lead to success. A disastrous 2020 might have left ...