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How do entrepreneurs survive their early failures? They don't view their failures as failures - they view these experiences as feedback, and a prelude to future success.

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Kevin Kelly
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: April 28
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I work in a you scratch my back, and I'll stab yours kind of a place.
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