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The power of failure: Lessons from a failed venture
The word failure carries a negative connotation, it is so because people perceive failure as their ultimate defeat. It won’t be wrong to say that failure is an inevitable part of life and more so in business.
However, one fails to understand that failures can act as a catalyst for growth. It can foster grave changes in the business and the way it operates. Thereby, encouraging you to build a more resilient business that can be profitable in the long run.
So, take a deep dive and learn how the power of failure can transform you and your business.
The need for flexibility-
In this ever-changing landscape of business. It is necessary to adapt to the changes and pivot when necessary. Failures can teach a person to embrace change. It makes you flexible and empowers you to adopt new policies and work on a different idea, even if it was not a part of your original plan.
This implies, that one should be ready to work on your ideas, grab opportunities and take feedback seriously. As it could offer insight on your business model and whether your strategies are working or not.
It fosters creative thinking
Failure in business can make you consider ideas you once thought were outlandish. It can pester you to reassess your approach towards business and adopt strategies that you earlier dismissed as too risky.
Taking market research seriously
Market research can play a critical role in shaping your business from knowing the customers’ needs, identifying the target audience, competitive analysis, and the cost of labour. Which can offer you an insight into the profitability of your business.
Many businesses fail because they don’t delve into market research and are too quick to invest in their project.
Network expansion
Having strong support is important in both business and life. It is when one fails at a venture, that one realizes the need for a strong support system and building a network. That can help provide advice and support in times of distress.
Which can create opportunities for collaborations, partnerships, and mentorship. It can also help you find a co-founder, who can complement your skills and work like a team to achieve business goals.
This quote by Thomas A. Edison resonates with my message, “I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.”
So, instead of dwelling on past failures. View them as stepping stones toward exploring and seizing new opportunities in business and beyond.
The article has been authored by visionary leader and inspirational mentor Suresh Meshramani.
MUMBAI: Apple just folded a photonics startup into its empire because when you’re building the future of light, sometimes you need to acquire the blueprint. Apple has quietly acquired key assets from invrs.io, a small AI-focused photonics startup, and brought its founder and sole employee, Martin Schubert, on board, according to a regulatory filing submitted to the European Union in October 2025.
The filing reveals that Apple would take over certain assets from invrs.io while hiring Schubert, a research scientist with prior stints at Meta, Google, and Micron Technology, where he worked on advanced display, semiconductor, and optical technologies.
Invrs.io specialised in open-source frameworks for photonics research, the science of controlling and manipulating light, critical to cameras, sensors, LiDAR, and displays across Apple’s ecosystem. The startup’s tools used AI-guided design to accelerate optical system simulation, optimisation, and benchmarking, aiming to make complex engineering more accessible to AI researchers and hardware developers.
Apple has not disclosed specific plans for integrating the technology, but the acquisition points to deeper ambitions in hardware-level AI. Enhanced light-based modelling could refine camera performance in iPhones and iPads, boost sensor accuracy in wearables, optimise spatial computing in Vision Pro, and advance next-generation displays and LiDAR systems.
Though modest compared with Apple’s blockbuster deals, the move underscores the company’s push to embed AI not just in software but in the physical foundations of its devices. As custom silicon and on-device AI accelerate, photonics expertise at the intersection of light and intelligence could prove a key differentiator.
For a company that once revolutionised screens with Retina displays, quietly snapping up a photonics innovator feels like the next logical step ensuring the light inside Apple’s world shines brighter, sharper, and smarter than ever.
