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4 Important Lessons About Failure From Shark Tank’s Barbara Corcoran This article is courtesy of  BusinessCollective , featuring thought leadership content by ambitious young entrepreneurs, executives & small business owners. Embracing fear and failure is  a key component of becoming an entrepreneur . You need to take a leap of faith to be a success in the startup world, and no one knows this better than Barbara Corcoran. Despite her $80 million net worth and tremendous success as a businesswoman and TV personality, “Shark Tank” star Barbara Corcoran is no stranger to failure. She received straight D’s throughout her academic career and held 20 different jobs by the time she turned 23. But that all began to change in 1973 when she cofounded a real estate business that flourished into an exceptionally successful company. In 2001, she sold her business for $66 million to NRT Incorporated, the largest residential real estate brokerage company in the U.S. C...