Without proper safeguards, entrepreneurs can lose control of the dream

ShareSave for laterPlease log in to bookmark this story.Log InCreate Free AccountInterested in more careers-related content? Check out our new weekly Work Life newsletter. Sent every Monday afternoon.Eric Ries provided a generation of entrepreneurs with a guide, The Lean Startup, on how to build powerful new companies. But he has since realized that was only half of what they needed. He failed to show them how to protect it from the financial forces that could corrode and corrupt their vision.“I started to feel like I was feeding one company after another into the meat grinder,” he writes in Incorruptible. Many entrepreneurs start off with a noble vision. They have an idea for a product or service that they feel society desperately needs.

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