Part of Nantchev's Nuggets of Knowledge series. Pure actionable knowledge. NO fluff. NO theory. Just Results and Success. It is best to learn from others' mistakes in business. The more you can learn from others the less mistakes you can make and the faster you can grow as an entrepreneur. I show you why and I show you some places where you can attain a lot of business and marketing knowledge to give you a distinct advantage. When you are an entrepreneur you need to Keep learning in order to shorten your learning curve through books, blogs, mentors and elsewhere. The more you can learn the more time you save by not making mistakes. For every 1 hour of research, you save 5 hours of making mistakes. There is groundwork for this in economics to keep learning; what is called the Convergence Rate. Which means that once someone has cleared the path for other people, they can take that same path and get to the same destination much faster. Like an icebreaker ship: once it breaks the ice once other ships can follow easily. Once some trailblazer has cleared the path, others can follow easily. Learning from other's mistakes is the best of kind of learning in order to get ahead. There is nothing to say we cannot learn from others' mistakes. They are the least threatening.