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The common thread that binds all wannabe’s, first timers and serial entrepreneurs, is belief in an audacious notion or idea, and the courage to make that idea a reality. The 10 decisions made below were extremely tough decisions, which could have ended terribly, but later resulted in some of the biggest payoffs in tech history.

1. Elon Musk bets on Tesla Motors

When Tesla ran out of money in 2008, Elon Musk put the money he made from the sale of PayPal into Tesla. If it had failed, he wouldn’t have had a cent left to his name. Good thing it didn’t.

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