There is no greater country on Earth for entrepreneurship than America. In every category, from the high-tech world of Silicon Valley, where I live, to University R&D labs, to countless Main Street small business owners, Americans are taking risks, embracing new ideas and - most importantly - creating jobs.

Learning is the essential unit of progress for startups.

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.

Every startup has a chance to change the world, by bringing not just a new product, but an entirely new institution into existence.

Using the Lean Startup approach, companies can create order not chaos by providing tools to test a vision continuously.

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.

At IMVU, we opened up our board meetings to the whole company.