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Incremental success can lull you into dangerous complacency.

Each day thousands of small and midsize companies make big, one-shot bets--and fail. We don’t hear about most of them, just as we don’t hear about people who lose the lottery; they aren’t front-page news

Are you bringing home the paycheck of your dreams? You can get paid well for doing what you love when you tap into the visionary within. When we entrepreneurs talk about "the dream," we are not talking about a fantasy, like winning the lottery.

Yesterday my father-in-law asked me to buy him $100 in lottery tickets.

So goes popular opinion: the lottery s an egregious societal evil implemented and overseen by shape-shifting, blood-drinking reptilian aliens. And that may be largely true designed to slowly and quietly bleed dry your pockets that is, unless you learn to drive it

A new report finds that immigrants are key to startup formation and job creation.

A new report finds that immigrants are key to startup formation and job creation. So why does America make it so difficult for immigrant entrepreneurs to stay? Just in case you need more proof that America's immigration policies are damaging to innovation, a new report shows that immigrant entrepreneurs have founded nearly half of America's top venture-backed companies.

Feel like a failure?

Author John Warrillow proposes an alternative to setting your sights on building a $200 million business: Focus on building a $2 million company instead. The generally-accepted dogma among entrepreneurs is "bigger is beautiful." You're nothing until you have some brand name investors on your board and 50 employees at your command.

British MPs want compulsory finance education in schools, but there's mixed evidence on effectiveness. At the epicenter of the housing crisis was a black hole of financial literacy--masses of consumers making calculations with unrealistic mathematical expectations . To avert another capitalist catastrophe, 300 British MPs are calling for mandatory personal finance education

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