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• Here in Silicon Valley, I have taken part in hundreds of conversations trying to convince people to dive in and become entrepreneurs. All too often, innovators with good, safe, jobs are unwilling to put their family's access to health care at risk by walking away from company-backed medical insurance.

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  Jobs, Taken, Walking Away

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• There is much that public policy can do to support American entrepreneurs. Health insurance reform will make it easier for entrepreneurs to take a chance on a new business without putting their family's health at risk. Tort reform will make it easier to take prudent risks on new products in a number of sectors.

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  Numbers, Support, Entrepreneur

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• A solid process lays the foundation for a healthy culture, one where ideas are evaluated by merit and not by job title.

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  Jobs, Ideas, Healthy

  Eric Ries (2011). “The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses”, p.140, Crown Business

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• Science and vision are not opposites or even at odds. They need each other. I sometimes hear other startup folks say something along the lines of: 'If entrepreneurship was a science, then anyone could do it.' I'd like to point out that even science is a science, and still very few people can do it, let alone do it well.

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  Odds, Opposites, People

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• The grim reality is that most start-ups fail. Most new products are not successful. Yet the story of perseverance, creative genius, and hard work persists.

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  Perseverance, Hard Work, Successful

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• The lesson of the MVP is that any additional work beyond what was required to start learning is waste, no matter how important it might have seemed at the time.

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  Mvp, Important, Lessons

  "How DropBox Started As A Minimal Viable Product". techcrunch.com. October 19, 2011.

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• What if we found ourselves building something that nobody wanted? In that case what did it matter if we did it on time and on budget?

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  What If, Matter, Building Something

  Eric Ries (2011). “The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses”, p.37, Crown Business

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• It doesn't matter if you call it a boom or a bubble. The startup business moves in cycles, and what goes up will eventually come down.

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  Moving, Matter, Cycles

  "Startups: Winter Is Coming" by Eric Ries, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 10, 2011.

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• Entrepreneurs always pitch their idea as 'the X of Y,' so this is going to be 'the Microsoft of food.' And yet disruptive innovations usually don't have that character. Most of the time, if something seems like a good idea, it probably isn't.

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  Business, Character, Ideas

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• The goal of every startup experiment is to discover how to build a sustainable business around that vision.

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  Goal, Vision, Experiments

  Eric Ries (2011). “The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses”, p.51, Crown Business

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