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Our educational system is not preparing people for the 21st Century. Failure is an essential part of entrepreneurship. If you work hard, you can get an A pretty much guaranteed, but in entrepreneurship, thats not how it works. – Eric Ries

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Famous pivot stories are often failures but you dont 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

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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 dont see? We can actually redeem a fair amount of that folk wisdom. – Eric Ries

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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 dont have that character. Most of the time, if something seems like a good idea, it probably isnt. – Eric Ries

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