All Innovation Begins With Vision. It’s What

I Asked All Of Our Recruiters To Give Me All Resumes Of Prospective Employees With Their Name, Gender, Place Of Origin, And Age Blacked Out. This Simple Change Shocked Me, Because I Found Myself Interviewing Different-looking Candidates - Even Though I Was 100% Convinced That I Was Not Being Biased In My Resume Selection Process.

Because Startups Often Accidentally Build Something Nobody Wants, It Doesn’t Matter Much If They Do It On Time And On Budget. The Goal Of A Startup Is To Figure Out The Right Thing To Build - The Thing Customers Want And Will Pay For - As Quickly As Possible.

Start-ups Make So Many Mistakes That The Challenge To Identify The Root Cause Of A Failure Is Tough. But Believing In Your Own Plan Is Probably The Worst.

A Head Start Is Rarely Large Enough To Matter, And Time Spent In Stealth Mode-away From Customers-is Unlikely To Provide A Head Start. The Only Way To Win Is To Learn Faster Than Anyone Else.

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.