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The Mistake Isn't Releasing Something Bad. The Mistake Is To Launch It And Get Pr People Involved. You Don't Want People To Start Amping Up Expectations For An Early Version Of Your Product. The Best Entrepreneurship Happens In Low-stakes Environments Where No One Is Paying Attention, Like Mark Zuckerberg's Dorm Room At Harvard.

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.

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

The Way Forward Is To Learn To See Every Startup In Any Industry As A Grand Experiment.

At Imvu, The Cost Of Customer Acquisition Through Our Five-dollar-a-day Adwords Campaign Was Less Than Twenty-five Cents. Our Revenue From Those Same Customers Was More Than A Dollar.