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You’re better off being The Beatles than The Monkees, as a startup.

Ben Horowitz

Yeah, I became a successful entrepreneur… Eventually
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Become Entrepreneur Successful
Mark [Andressen] was more popular than me at the time … He was like Beyoncé, I was Kelly Rowlings
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Beyonce Mark More Popular Time
There are no shortcuts to knowledge, especially knowledge gained from personal experience. Following conventional wisdom and relying on shortcuts can be worse than knowing nothing at all.
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Knowing Knowledge Gain Nothing Shortcut
You don’t need every investor to believe that you can succeed. You only need one.
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Believe Inspiration Needs
A key thing in being a leader is you’ve got to pause yourself.
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Keys Leader Management
It’s pretty clear that [customers] know what their budgets are now, and what they want to spend it on.
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Clear Customer Want
Sometimes an organization doesn’t need a solution; it just needs clarity.
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Clarity Needs Organization
Volatility and length, that’s the value on an option. 10 years on a startup stock, that’s a big valuable thing.
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Length Management Years
The one thing with stress is, you’ve got to keep your focus on what you can do, not what happened to you.
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Focus Management Stress
There are no silver bullets.
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Bullets Growth No Silver
The only thing that prepares you to run a company is running a company.
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Company Repair Running
A lot of it is on the job training, combined with excellent mentorship.
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Excellent Job Lot Mentorship Training
Groupon looked like a very high valuation, but any investment in a great company at any stage is almost always a good investment.
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Great Company Investment Stage
Planning is valuable, tho the plan is usually useless.
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Planning Useless Valuable
As a company grows, communication becomes its biggest challenge.
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Challenges Communication Company
I think theres a lot to be said about just enjoying your work. It can be very contrived when people say their work is for the good of mankind.
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