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Here’s The Advice The Atari Founder Gave To A Young Steve Jobs – Nolan Bushnell in Inc.

Holding on to your convictions in the face of mediocrity can help turn the naysayers into believers. Naysaying has always been an epidemic of sorts. The majority of people, if asked to vote, would vote on mediocrity. You might wonder why someone would freely choose mediocrity. The simple answer is this: they can’t see far

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Jay Samit: The Faster You Fail the More You’ll Succeed in the WSJ.

As counterintuitive as it sounds, “speed to fail” should be every entrepreneur’s motto. Success isn’t born wholly-formed like Venus from a clamshell: It’s developed through relentless trial and error. Business plans pitched to investors are regularly ditched when faced with unforeseen obstacles that can only be discovered by actually launching your startup. Entrepreneurs always begin

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Nolan and Brent Bushnell featured in USA Today talking about the future

Nolan Bushnell knows a thing or two about predicting what might be hot. He started a little company called Atari, whose rudimentary video game Pong arguably is the great-grandfather of high-def virtual onslaughts such as Call of Duty. And he launched Chuck E. Cheese, a chain that represents nirvana for kids and, well, not so much for ear-plugging parents.

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