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From the Ted Talk by Leticia Gasca: Una nueva manera de hablar del fracaso en los negocios
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Open Cloze
But we soon ________ that we were rookies. The truth is, the crafts didn't sell — or better yet, we didn't know how to sell them — and the business plan we had made wasn't _________. We ______ for years without salary, waiting for a miracle to happen, hoping that magically, a huge buyer would appear and make the business profitable and _______ the entire project from dying. But in the end, the miracle didn't happen. We had to close the business and that _____ my _____, because I _____ the whole project in order to have a positive impact on the life of the artisans, and I felt that I had actually had a very negative impact. I felt so guilty about what happened that for years I hid it from my résumé and from my conversations.
Solution
- prevent
- realistic
- heart
- realized
- began
- broke
- worked
Original Text
But we soon realized that we were rookies. The truth is, the crafts didn't sell — or better yet, we didn't know how to sell them — and the business plan we had made wasn't realistic. We worked for years without salary, waiting for a miracle to happen, hoping that magically, a huge buyer would appear and make the business profitable and prevent the entire project from dying. But in the end, the miracle didn't happen. We had to close the business and that broke my heart, because I began the whole project in order to have a positive impact on the life of the artisans, and I felt that I had actually had a very negative impact. I felt so guilty about what happened that for years I hid it from my résumé and from my conversations.
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