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Coming to America

“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.”

ERIC RIES

Silicon Valley entrepreneur and author credited with pioneering the lean start-up movement

In 1958, when I was eight and a half years old, I found myself on a plane with my mother, headed for New York. My uncle Joe had sent tickets for us to come to America. My mother told me not to worry, we were just going two stops and then we’d get off.

This was my first airplane ride, in a four-engine El Al Israel Airlines ...

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