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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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• You know how people always talk about how vision is the key to entrepreneurship and perseverance and really seeing what other people don't see? We can actually redeem a fair amount of that folk wisdom.

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  Perseverance, Keys, People

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• At IMVU, we opened up our board meetings to the whole company.

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  Boards, Company, Meetings

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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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• 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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• Vanity metrics are the numbers you want to publish on TechCrunch to make your competitors feel bad.

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  Vanity, Numbers, Want

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• Learning to see waste and systematically eliminate it has allowed lean companies such as Toyota to dominate entire industries. Lean thinking defines value as 'providing benefit to the customer'; anything else is waste.

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  Thinking, Benefits, Waste

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• Most start-up companies fail and it is smart public policy to help entrepreneurs increase their odds of succeeding. But, the biggest loss to our economy is not all the start-ups that didn't make it: It's the ones that might have been created but weren't.

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  Smart, Loss, Odds

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• Entrepreneurs can't forecast accurately, because they are trying something fundamentally new. So they will often be laughably behind plan - and on the brink of success.

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  Often Is, Entrepreneur, Trying

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