{"id":46522,"date":"2023-10-20T15:50:21","date_gmt":"2023-10-20T15:50:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/startupsmart.test\/2023\/10\/20\/the-audacity-to-fail-podcast-episode-six-shark-tanks-steve-baxter-on-dealing-with-failure-as-an-investor-startupsmart\/"},"modified":"2023-10-20T15:50:21","modified_gmt":"2023-10-20T15:50:21","slug":"the-audacity-to-fail-podcast-episode-six-shark-tanks-steve-baxter-on-dealing-with-failure-as-an-investor-startupsmart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/uncategorized\/the-audacity-to-fail-podcast-episode-six-shark-tanks-steve-baxter-on-dealing-with-failure-as-an-investor-startupsmart\/","title":{"rendered":"The Audacity to Fail podcast episode six: Shark Tank\u2019s Steve Baxter on dealing with failure as an investor &#8211; StartupSmart"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"332\" itemprop=\"image\" class=\"entry-thumb\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Steve-Baxter-640x332.jpg\" alt=\"Shark Tank investor Steve Baxter\" title=\"Steve Baxter\"><\/div>\n<p>In <em>The Audacity to Fail<\/em> series finale, Shark Tank\u2019s Steve Baxter discusses failure from an investor\u2019s point of view.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Listen to StartupSmart on the go: This podcast is now available on iTunes<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cSometimes you\u2019ve got to shatter some illusions,\u201d&nbsp;Baxter tells&nbsp;<em>StartupSmart.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>While it\u2019s all well&nbsp;and good&nbsp;to talk about failure, Baxter says&nbsp;that the serious consequences when a business collapses shouldn&#8217;t be ignored.<\/p>\n<p>Baxter says&nbsp;the broader public and government should give failed founders a second chance, but entrepreneurs should never take this for granted.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou get to some of these journeys and you just want to pat the guys on the back and say, \u2018you know, you gave it a good shot\u2019, and you get to others and you really don\u2019t want to look them in the face,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/players.brightcove.net\/1724217442001\/default_default\/index.html?videoId=5024291733001\" width=\"641\" height=\"100\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Music by Bunny Noir and Yesterday\u2019s Cub.<\/p>\n<p><em>Follow StartupSmart on<\/em>&nbsp;<em>Facebook,<\/em>&nbsp;<em>Twitter,&nbsp;LinkedIn&nbsp;and&nbsp;SoundCloud.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In The Audacity to Fail series finale, Shark Tank\u2019s Steve Baxter discusses failure from an investor\u2019s point of view. Listen<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":63027,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46522"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46522"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46522\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}