# Entrepreneurial fear of failure (Cacciotti et al 2020) - Weekend Classics VSSER26

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English Podcast starts at 00:00:00 Bengali Podcast Starts at 00:15:22 Hindi Podcast Starts at 00:27:33 Danish Podcast Starts at 00:46:27 Reference Cacciotti, G., Hayton, J. C., Mitchell, J. R., & Allen, D. G. (2020). Entrepreneurial fear of failure: Scale development and validation. Journal of Business Venturing, 35(5), 106041. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbusvent.2020.106041 ‌Youtube channel link https://www.youtube.com/@weekendresearcher Podcast Website https://mayukhmukhopadhyay.com/reviseandresubmit/ VSSER-2026 Paper Explainer Website https://mayukhpsm.github.io/vsser26/ 🎙️✨ Welcome to Revise and Resubmit and to another episode of Weekend Classics . I am glad you are here. Some papers do not just study a phenomenon. They lean in close to the human condition. This one does exactly that. 💭📘 Today, I am exploring Entrepreneurial Fear of Failure: Scale Development and Validation by G. Cacciotti, J.C. Hayton, J.R. Mitchell, and D.G. Allen, published in the Journal of Business Venturing on 17 June 2020. And yes, this is an FT50-listed journal, which tells us something about the rigor. But what stays with me is not only the rigor. It is the recognition that entrepreneurship is not just about vision, hustle, and heroic perseverance. It is also about fear. Real fear. Quiet fear. The kind that sits beside ambition and asks what happens if this all falls apart. 🎧🔥 What I find deeply compelling about this paper is that it refuses the easy version of the story. It does not ask people to imagine failure from a safe distance. It does not treat fear of failure as a fixed personality flaw. Instead, it turns toward entrepreneurs in the mess of lived experience, where uncertainty is not theoretical and risk is not a classroom exercise. There, fear appears as something more layered,…

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