<ul><li>Mike Maples Jr., founder of Floodgate Ventures, presents a vision of entrepreneurship in his book “Pattern Breakers.”</li><li>The book focuses on the importance of being unreasonable and going against the grain.</li><li>Maples shares a range of examples and insights from companies both successful and failed.</li><li>The best returns in investing come from opportunities deemed unreasonable at first.</li><li>Embrace non-consensus thinking for transformative ideas.</li><li>Master strategic timing recognizing enabling conditions aligning.</li><li>Start with transformative questions rather than immediate solutions.</li><li>Begin with unscalable efforts to obtain invaluable insights.</li><li>True pattern breakers create transformative change and share several characteristics.</li><li>For founders, be willing to do things that don’t scale to gain deep customer insights.</li></ul>

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