My latest Lifehacker post (“Failure is the Highway to Success“) is about my personal experience “failing” at growing Dandelife. I’m noticing a lot of people have the same thoughts. I guess you could say there’s something in the water. In a down time, it’s only naturual to collect your thoughts and carve a new path for yourself. Ahem, 3ones, ahem. 
- Paul Graham’s 13 factors for success. (Fail Fast is one of them).
- Tim Draper’s top 10 reasons start-ups fail. (Number 10 is my favorite).
- Guy Kawasaki on fantastic “flounders” – when plan A didn’t quite work. From the aptly titled : Founders at Work: Stories of Startups’ Early Days. #2, the Flickr story, is one I quote often.
- Jason Calcanis: what to do if your start-up is about to fail. And some y-combinator forum chatter with nice tidbits of start-up failure wisdom.