At Imvu, We Opened Up Our Board

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.

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.

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.

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. In Other Words, The Lean Startup Is A New Way Of Looking At The Development Of Innovative New Products That Emphasizes Fast Iteration And Customer Insight, A Huge Vision, And Great Ambition, All At The Same Time.

A Start Up Is An Institution Designed To Thrive In The Soil Of Extreme Uncertainty