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In 2000, just before the first dot-com bubble burst, it cost a whopping $5 million to launch a tech startup.
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Private industry's job is to make money. Private industry's job is to create a huge economic engine.
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Large-scale philanthropy, based in the private - not the public - sector, is a relatively recent historical development.
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I view risk-aversion as crippling America in many ways.
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In 1980, during my sophomore year at MIT, I realized that the school didn't have a student space organization. I made posters for a group I called Students for the Exploration and Development of Space and put them up all over campus. Thirty-five people showed up. It was the first thing I ever organized, and it took off!
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Make it clear up front what the aim of the company is. Stay true to your authentic vision.
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Have an open mind - allow different ideas into your way of thinking.
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As I've conducted my interviews with crowdsourcing entrepreneurs and experts, it's constantly hit me that your ability to do something big and bold is really a function of the size and quality of your crowd.
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As lower-cost phones begin to penetrate, they'll become the educator and physician everywhere on the planet.
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Online games for data-mining have a short virtual shelf life. People get bored, especially if the game seems stagnant.
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If the idea is really new and unique and big, other people will all think it is bad and is going to fail.
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Regardless of what the naysayers believe about human interaction and social media, the data show us that the abundance of technology is actually increasing the abundance of happiness all over the world.
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In the 1940s, about 20% of people in the U.S. had graduated from high school, but less than 5% continued their education to get bachelors' degrees or higher.
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Every generation feels it has the problems that will destroy it. That's because we can perceive them a long time before we have the ability to fix them.
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I think people are dreaming big because they have the tools to dream big. I hope that people are dreaming big because it makes them feel good about their lives.
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At its core, bitcoin is a smart currency designed by very forward-thinking engineers. It eliminates the need for banks, gets rid of credit card fees, currency exchange fees, money transfer fees, and reduces the need for lawyers in transitions... all good things.
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Revealing water in significant quantities on the Moon could truly be a turning point in space exploration.
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The Net is allowing us to turn ourselves into a giant, collective meta-intelligence. And this meta-intelligence continues to grow as more and more people come online.
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In most developed countries, the average person receives about 16 years of education. Even in developing countries, the population gets five to eight years of education.
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There are nearly one billion illiterate people on Earth.
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Super-ambitious goals tend to be unifying and energizing to people; but only if they believe there's a chance of success.
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Lots of people dream big and talk about big bold ideas but never do anything. I judge people by what they've done. The ratio of something to nothing is infinite. So just do something.
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If you give people unlimited time and money, they'll do things the same old way. But if they have to achieve the goal in a brief time, they'll either give up or try something new.
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The old newspaper adage, 'If it bleeds, it leads,' is as true today as it was a century ago.
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