The hardest part is the grueling work of constantly being wrong.

You know how people always talk about how vision is the key to entrepreneurship and perseverance and really seeing what other people don't see? We can actually redeem a fair amount of that folk wisdom.

The Lean Startup has evolved into a movement that is having a significant impact on how companies are built, funded and scaled.

By the time that product is ready to be distributed widely, it will already have established customers.

Leadership requires creating conditions that enable employees to do the kinds of experimentation that entrepreneurship requires.

The grim reality is that most start-ups fail. Most new products are not successful. Yet the story of perseverance, creative genius, and hard work persists.

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, that's not how it works.