I Screwed Up: How Three Famed Entrepreneurs Learned From Failure

 So Tarkenton says he invested $200,000 of his own money, plus a $50,000 bank loan, in a collection of businesses that included a fast-food startup called Scrambler’s Village in Atlanta. The restaurant sold a variety of items typical of fast-food joints — tacos, fried chicken, hamburgers and the like.Fran Tarkenton, the football-pro-turned-businessman, tasted failure straight out of the entrepreneurship gate. “When I was 27, a lawyer friend told me he could help me start a business, and he could run it, and I should use my money,” Tarkenton says. So Tarkenton says he invested $200,000 of his own money, plus a $50,000 bank loan, in a collection of businesses that included a fast-food startup called Scrambler’s Village in Atlanta. The restaurant sold a variety of items typical of fast-food joints — tacos, fried chicken, hamburgers and the like.Continue reading this article on Entrepreneur.com.