Schools reward their students for a combination of intelligence, perseverance, and hard work - in the classroom and on the playing fields. But these metrics don't help kids understand that great grades are not a pass for a great life.

Steve Blank
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  3. The one you love and the one who loves you are never, ever the same person. - Chuck Palahniuk

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  1. Failure will happen. It's a normal part of the startup process.

  2. While 'The Owner's Manual' is not a formula for guaranteed success by any means, we're confident it will help reduce the failure rate of most startups that use our Customer Development process.

  3. In corporations, the penalty for repeated failure on known tasks is being reassigned to other tasks or asked to leave the company.

  4. What's been missing from regions outside of Silicon Valley is a 'playbook.' In American football, a playbook contains a sports team's strategies and plays. It struck me that every region needs its own industry playbook on how to compete globally.

  5. Schools reward their students for a combination of intelligence, perseverance, and hard work - in the classroom and on the playing fields. But these metrics don't help kids understand that great grades are not a pass for a great life.

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