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So I'm going to start the show today with a question I got from a guy named Jim in Marietta, Georgia.

And the reason for this is because I get a lot of questions like this and I wanted to give it some attention on the front side here.

Jim asked me whether it's best to blindly encourage

entrepreneurs to pursue their ideas

or to set them up for the risks that they're about to encounter

or tell them the reality that they're likely to face.

Well, I agree wholeheartedly that it's good to tell people the reality.

It's almost mean to encourage someone to go down a road.

You don't think that's going to get them

where they want to go or yield any results and very often this is a friend and

then not even creates a larger obligation to tell them like it is. But most investors I know don't succeed in business

because they are good at dreaming and they're good at starting things but they're no good at

making money with what they've started and I think this is at the core of a lot of inventors who start businesses as to why they don't succeed

but thank God for the inventors because without them we wouldn't have started many of the

businesses that we enjoy every day in life and you really need the inventors to

get the fire started but what we also need in an inventor is the ability and the capacity to bring something to market,

to figure a way to turn the great invention into cash, and that's where so many inventors fall short. So I'm sure you've watched on Shark Tank

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