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The Only Person Who Can Put You Out Of Business, In The Early Days, Is Yourself.

Science And Vision Are Not Opposites Or Even At Odds. They Need Each Other. I Sometimes Hear Other Startup Folks Say Something Along The Lines Of: 'if Entrepreneurship Was A Science, Then Anyone Could Do It.' I'd Like To Point Out That Even Science Is A Science, And Still Very Few People Can Do It, Let Alone Do It Well.

It Doesn't Matter If You Call It A Boom Or A Bubble. The Startup Business Moves In Cycles, And What Goes Up Will Eventually Come Down.

Except In Very Narrow Cases, Where There's Breakthrough Science That Needs Patent Production, Worrying About Competitors Is A Waste Of Time. If You Can't Out Iterate Someone Who Is Trying To Copy You, You're Toast Anyway.

Leadership Requires Creating Conditions That Enable Employees To Do The Kinds Of Experimentation That Entrepreneurship Requires.