{"id":1925,"date":"2005-11-09T06:45:48","date_gmt":"2005-11-09T06:45:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=1925"},"modified":"2005-11-09T06:45:48","modified_gmt":"2005-11-09T06:45:48","slug":"learning_from_f","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=1925","title":{"rendered":"Learning From Failure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wisopinion.com\/index.iml?mdl=article.mdl&amp;article=2888\">Tom Still<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>Embracing failure as a teacher in the school of hard knocks was the theme of last week&rsquo;s &ldquo;Ideas to Profits&rdquo; conference at UW-Whitewater, where the Wisconsin Innovation Service Center marked its 25th year of helping entrepreneurs grow their businesses. <\/p>\n<p>Three successful Wisconsin entrepreneurs told their stories to conference participants during a panel discussion that illustrated how most &#8211; if not all &#8211; innovators have overcome obstacles along the road to growing profitable businesses. About 200 people attended the two-day conference organized by Dr. Deb Malewicki, UW-Whitewater&rsquo;s director of business outreach services.<br \/>\n<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tom Still: Embracing failure as a teacher in the school of hard knocks was the theme of last week&rsquo;s &ldquo;Ideas to Profits&rdquo; conference at UW-Whitewater, where the Wisconsin Innovation Service Center marked its 25th year of helping entrepreneurs grow their businesses. Three successful Wisconsin entrepreneurs told their stories to conference participants during a panel discussion [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1925"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1925"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1925\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}