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Lay the Foundation
Support the Next Generation of Entrepreneurs
The greatest challenge in building a Frontier startup is operating at the Frontier, especially when you are the first to arrive. As you have seen, Frontier Innovators are tackling tougher problems than their Silicon Valley counterparts are, and they are tackling them in more-difficult ecosystems.
The best Frontier Innovators lead heroic acts of terraforming: laying the building blocks for a future innovation ecosystem and kick-starting ecosystem development. A small minority of these entrepreneurs—those who reach scale and exit early in the life span of their ecosystem—have an outsized impact on these systems, clearing the path for future generations of entrepreneurs and lending ...
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