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My initial thoughts:

> First hand lessons

> over eighty failed startups

I dunno... if you've got first hand experience in 80 startups then maybe their failures are because you didn't spend enough time in any single one of them.

Then I read the article:

> We've analyzed why +80 startups have failed

If you've analyzed the startups then I really don't think that counts as "first hand".

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Ok we'll take the hands out of the title above.

first hand means you got the info from the first or original source.

That's an unusual definition of first hand...

Here's Merriam-Webster's:

> obtained by, coming from, or being direct personal observation or experience

These lessons are not from the OP's direct personal observation or experience.

Isn't that second hand? You interviewed the people with first hand knowledge.

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