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All innovation begins with vision. It’s what happens next that is critical.

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Eric Ries
Age: 45
Born: 1979
Born: September 22
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Entrepreneur
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Innovation
Begins
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Vision
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The way forward is to learn to see every startup in any industry as a grand experiment.
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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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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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If the plan is to see what happens, a team is guaranteed to succeed - at seeing what happens - but won't necessarily gain validated learning - If you cannot fail, you cannot learn.
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This is one of the most important lessons of the scientific method: if you cannot fail, you cannot learn.
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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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If you cannot fail, you cannot learn.
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Don’t be in a rush to get big. Be in a rush to have a great product.
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We must learn what customers really want, not what they say they want or what we think they should want.
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The only person who can put you out of business, in the early days, is yourself.
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Reading is good, action is better.
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