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There was a study done in the early 20th century of all the entrepreneurs who entered the automobile industry around the same time as Henry Ford; there were something like 500 automotive companies that got funded, had the internal combustion engine, had the technology, and had the vision. Sixty percent of them folded within a couple of years.

~Eric Ries

Topics: Around Automobile Century Companies Couple Done Early Engine Entered Entrepreneurs Folded Ford Got Had Henry Industry Internal Like Percent Same Same Time Sixty Something Study Technology Them Time Vision Were Who Within Years 20Th Century

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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.

~Eric Ries

Topics: Always Character Disruptive Entrepreneurs Food Going Good Good Idea Idea Innovations Like Microsoft Most Pitch Seems Something Time

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The United States is locked in a new arms race for that most precious resource - the future entrepreneurs upon whom economic growth depends. Substantial research shows that immigrants play a key role in American job creation.

~Eric Ries

Topics: American Arms Arms Race Creation Depends Economic Economic Growth Entrepreneurs Future Growth Immigrants Job Job Creation Key Locked Most New Play Precious Race Research Resource Role Shows States Substantial United United States Whom

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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.

~Eric Ries

Topics: American Business Chance Easier Entrepreneurs Family Health Health Insurance Insurance Make Much New New Business New Products Number Policy Products Prudent Public Public Policy Putting Reform Risk Risks Sectors Support Take Take A Chance Will Without

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Most entrepreneurs don't need as many customers as they think. A lot of people think 10 is too few for a sample. But if all 10 refused a product, why is that not enough? If you want 100, 1,000 or a million customers, you first have to get 10.

~Eric Ries

Topics: Customers Enough Entrepreneurs Few First Get Lot Many Million Most Need People Product Refused Sample Think Too Want Why You

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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.

~Eric Ries

Topics: Been Biggest Companies Created Economy Entrepreneurs Fail Help Increase Loss Make Might Most Odds Our Policy Public Public Policy Smart Start-Up Succeeding Were

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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.

~Eric Ries

Topics: Access Away Become Care Conversations Convince Dive Entrepreneurs Family Good Health Health Care Here Hundreds Innovators Insurance Jobs Medical Often Part People Put Risk Safe Silicon Silicon Valley Taken Too Trying Unwilling Valley Walking

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Bitcoin is absolutely the Wild West of finance, and thank goodness. It represents a whole legion of adventurers and entrepreneurs, of risk takers, inventors, and problem solvers. It is the frontier. Huge amounts of wealth will be created and destroyed as this new landscape is mapped out.

~Erik Voorhees

Topics: Absolutely Amount Bitcoin Created Destroyed Entrepreneurs Finance Frontier Goodness Huge Huge Amounts Inventors Landscape Legion New Out Problem Represents Risk Takers Thank Thank Goodness Wealth West Whole Wild Wild West Will

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Bitcoin is open-source, global, and requires no permission from anybody, so thousands of entrepreneurs are gravitating in and building their vision.

~Erik Voorhees

Topics: Anybody Bitcoin Building Entrepreneurs Global Permission Requires Thousands Vision

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Increasingly, I'm inspired by entrepreneurs who run nonprofit organizations that fund themselves, or for-profit organizations that achieve social missions while turning a profit.

~Ethan Zuckerman

Topics: Achieve Entrepreneurs Fund Increasingly Inspired Missions Nonprofit Organizations Profit Run Social Themselves Turning While Who

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