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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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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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Learning to see waste and systematically eliminate it has allowed lean companies such as Toyota to dominate entire industries. Lean thinking defines value as providing benefit to the customer anything else is waste. – Eric Ries

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