It takes more than having great ideas to make a startup work. It has become a part of Silicon Valley culture to understand that being first and blazing a trail may not be the best path to success. Some companies such as 3DFX Interactive, Napster, and Wang Laboratories began and built amazing technologies that would eventually become huge components of many of our lives, yet didn’t last to see their dreams fulfilled. Others stepped in and made it happen. Let’s take a look at their stories below. Thanks to Visually and Milwaukee Ford Dealers for pointing this infographic from Total Bankruptcy out…

So you want to build an app, construct your dream gadget or become the next Steve Jobs. No matter what entrepreneurial visions you may want to venture, to be an entrepreneur you must be able to roll with the punches and understand that failure is a part of the process since 82% of the time you will. This does not mean that your success isn’t awaiting you, but first you need to understand what it takes to be an entrepreneur and the risks and rewards that come with turning a vision into a reality. Money will never be the motive as to why you take the risk and increase your debt to ensure that what you want to see…

Google, New York City, Cornell University and Technion-Israel Institute of Technology join forces to form a school offering classes in computer coding, but it is looking to compete with online education empires offering courses in venture management and bent on building a good reputation. Twenty-two thousand feet of the Google campus in New York opens in July for this venture dubbed “CornellNYC Tech.” Intended to function like the entrepreneurial incubators of the dot com era, this new school combines entrepreneurial skills-building with science. Google’s NYC campus Envisioned…

An ambitious, if not entirely business-savvy entrepreneur has a great idea for a business: buy The Pirate Bay and re-imagine it as a legal content distribution network. The only minor flaws: he has no money, and the owners of The Pirate Bay have maintained that they are not for sale. Donald Trump wannabe Hans Pandeya is convinced that users currently paying small amounts to sites distributing illegal copyright material are ripe to be moved over to a level distribution system. Hans had hoped to buy the The Pirate Bay’s site and domain name and simply make the switch. The Pirate Bay has been a thorn…