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It's a really paradoxical thing. We want to think big, but start small. And then scale fast. People think about trying to build the next Facebook as trying to start where Facebook is today, as a major global presence.

~Eric Ries

Topics: About Big Build Facebook Fast Global Major Next Paradoxical People Presence Really Scale Small Start Then Thing Think Think Big Today Trying Want Where

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Famous pivot stories are often failures but you don't need to fail before you pivot. All a pivot is is a change is strategy without a change in vision. Whenever entrepreneurs see a new way to achieve their vision - a way to be more successful - they have to remain nimble enough to take it.

~Eric Ries

Topics: Achieve Before Change Enough Entrepreneurs Fail Failures Famous More Need New New Way Nimble Often Remain See Stories Strategy Successful Take Vision Way Whenever Without You

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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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Topics: About Actually Always Amount Entrepreneurship Fair Fair Amount Folk How Key Know Other People Perseverance Really Redeem See Seeing Talk Vision Wisdom You

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It was 1999, and we were building a way for college kids to create online profiles for the purpose of sharing... with employers. Oops. I vividly remember the moment I realized my company was going to fail. My co-founder and I were at our wits' end. By 2001, the dot-com bubble had burst, and we had spent all our money.

~Eric Ries

Topics: Bubble Building Burst College Company Create Employers End Fail Going Had Kids Moment Money Online Our Purpose Realized Remember Sharing Spent Vividly Way Were Wits

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Start-up success is not a consequence of good genes or being in the right place at the right time. Success can be engineered by following the right process, which means it can be learned, which means it can be taught.

~Eric Ries

Topics: Being Consequence Engineered Following Genes Good Learned Means Place Process Right Right Place Right Time Start-Up Success Success Is Taught Time Which

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If your goal is to make money, becoming an entrepreneur is a sucker's bet. Sure, some entrepreneurs make a lot of money, but if you calculate the amount of stress-inducing work and time it takes and multiply that by the low likelihood of success and eventual payoff, it is not a great way to get rich.

~Eric Ries

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I actually believed if you work hard enough it was inevitable you'd succeed. Then I lived the 'Social Network' movie, but only the first half. The hardest part is the grueling work of constantly being wrong.

~Eric Ries

Topics: Actually Being Believed Constantly Enough First Grueling Half Hard Hardest Hardest Part Inevitable Lived Movie Network Only Part Social Succeed Then Work Work Hard Wrong You

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The attributes for entrepreneurs cut both ways. You need the ability to ignore inconvenient facts and see the world as it should be and not as it is. This inspires people to take huge leaps of faith. But this blindness to facts can be a liability, too. The characteristics that help entrepreneurs succeed can also lead to their failure.

~Eric Ries

Topics: Ability Also Attributes Blindness Both Both Ways Characteristics Cut Entrepreneurs Facts Failure Faith Help Huge Ignore Inconvenient Inspires Lead Leaps Liability Need People See Should Succeed Take Too Ways World You

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

~Eric Ries

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I believe for the first time in history, entrepreneurship is now a viable career.

~Eric Ries

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Businessman

Born: September 22nd, 1979

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