LinkedIn Post Example: Sharing a Failure

I failed. And I'm not ashamed to admit it. Last year, I launched a project that completely flopped. But you know what? Failure is the greatest teacher. Here's what I learned: → Failure isn't the opposite of success, it's part of the journey → Every setback is a setup for a comeback → The only real failure is not trying If you're going through something tough right now, keep going. Your breakthrough is closer than you think. 💪 #failure #resilience #growthmindset

In March, I pitched our board on expanding into the UK. I built a 60-page market analysis, hired a country manager, and signed a 12-month lease on an office in London. The board approved it unanimously. Five months later, I shut it down. We'd signed four customers. Our country manager quit. The lease cost us $180K that we'll never get back. The mistake wasn't the expansion. It was how I sold it internally. I built the case around market size and competitor presence, the kind of data that looks great in a deck but tells you nothing about whether your specific product will work in a specific market. I never talked to a single UK prospect before pitching the board. I treated a $500K bet like a strategy exercise instead of a customer development problem. The UK might still be right for us eventually. But next time I'll have 20 signed LOIs before I sign a lease.