Business ownership requires the wearing of many hats, which is part of the reason the failure rate for start-ups is high (about half survive for five years).

公司的经营者会做多手准备。其中一部分原因是失败的几率很高(大概需要五年的时间才能重获新生)。

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It's no wonder that entrepreneurs are perceived as risk-takers and failure rates for start-ups are so dismal.

难怪企业家都被看作冒险家，而且创建企业的失败率如此之高。

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Moving away from a scripted, pundit-style, one-size-fits-all message, we will certainly make mistakes. But, the only real mistake is thinking that these slip-ups equal failure.

偏离了预设权威式通用风格后，我们很可能会犯错，但是，我们真正的错误是把这些闪失等同于失败。

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A life, a fulfilling life, a rich life includes ups and downs, includes pain and getting up again, includes failure and getting up again.

生活，令人满意的生活，丰富的生活包括了起起落落，包括了痛苦和再次振作，包括了失败和再次奋斗。

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The thinking is that these investors have the experience and deep enough pockets to withstand losses, given that start-ups have a high failure rate.

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Ressi started the Founder Institute in 2009 in his Palo Alto, Calif. garage as a response to the financial crisis and his belief that lowering the high failure rate for start-ups could lead to an economic recovery.

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However, a survey of almost 1, 500 European business leaders carried out late last year by UPS, a logistics firm, showed that they are more worried about the failure to enforce the existing single-market rules.

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