One difference I have found in the Bay Area (I can not speak for other regions.) is the fact that failure is better accepted here than in France. Here making mistakes is part of the experience, and the lessons learned can help improve the next company creation.

If you fail and try again, you should normally gain experience and be better prepared for unknown situations. Lots of the entrepreneurs I meet have so many ideas for a potential new business, and it would be a pity if their environment limited their creativity by pointing to failures as a stopper for trying again to implement a new concept.

Who hasn’t made mistakes in his life? During difficult situations, I see better those who demark themselves from the crowd by the way they handle tough contexts and solve problems. This is a topic I could discuss for hours, but today in this post I would like to talk about a conference that will take place in few months: FailCon 2010.

Cassandra Philips is the Executive Producer of FailCon, a conference that invites company founders to talk about their startup failures.

In 2009 I attended an event where Cassie presented her concept, and as I was curious about the topics she would discuss. I therefore decided to attend FailCon 2009. Apart from a few persons whose speeches were too much “marketing oriented” for me, I was impressed by the sincerity of the people willing to share their experience with the attendees. Among the speakers were Mark Pincus (CEO of Zynga), the founders of Meebo, and Max Levchin (co-founder of Paypal).

The next FailCon conference will take place in San Francisco on October 25, 2010. I hope to hear about new inspiring stories that day.