In the cliché driven world of business and marketing, it’s easy to roll out the old adage that success breeds success.

But as any good entrepreneur knows, it’s the experience of failure that ultimately drives long-term career glory.

So here at Innovatrs, we’ve found 25 very insightful tips from Taylor Davidson (of unstructuredventures.com) that your company can avoid repeating. It’s by no means a definitive list (after all, every entrepreneur has their own unique story of success and failure) but it does draw upon Taylor’s large experience of the business world. In the last 12 years, Taylor has taken on a wide variety of positions in start-ups, venture capital, strategy consulting, product and marketing strategy and private equity.