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As companies move to web-based computing they get a lot more servers, which are difficult to manage and control. All kinds of problems can arise – security, quality and worms.

Ben Horowitz

Yeah, I became a successful entrepreneur… Eventually
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Become Entrepreneur Successful
You don’t need every investor to believe that you can succeed. You only need one.
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Believe Inspiration Needs
One of the great things about building a tech company is the amazing people that you can hire.
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Building Great People Things
Here’s Kanye, the great musical genius of his generation in hip hop, but, like, society really can’t even deal with him because he’s always saying something that people go, ‘Oh, I can’t believe Kanye said that. I can’t believe he did that.’
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Believe Musical Genius People
The only thing that prepares you to run a company is running a company.
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Company Repair Running
As a startup CEO, I slept like a baby. I woke up every 2 hours and cried.
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Baby Hours Motivation
When you’re making a critical decision, you have to understand how it’s going to be interpreted from all points of view. Not just your point of view, not just the person you’re talking to, but the people that aren’t in the room. Everybody else.
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Critical Decisions Talking Views
Most large mistakes in organizational design come from putting the individual ambitions of the people at the top of the organization ahead of the communication paths for the people at the bottom of the organization.
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Ambition Communication Mistakes
I believe in strength over lack of weakness.
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Believe Strength Weakness
In a company, hundreds of decisions get made, but objectives and goals are thin.
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Decision Goal Made
Sometimes an organization doesn’t need a solution; it just needs clarity.
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Clarity Needs Organization
I don’t believe in statistics. I believe in calculus.
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Believe Statistics
Over the last ten years, technological advances have dramatically lowered the financial bar for starting a new company, but the courage bar for building a great company remains as high as it has ever been.
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Bar Company Lasts Lower 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
Until you make the effort to get to know someone or something, you don’t know anything.
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Anything Effort Knows Someone Something
Generally the reason they fail in the job is, you made some mistake in the hiring process in that you didn’t match… them to the needs of your company accurately enough. That’s the #1 reason this fails. And that’s generally a good place to start.
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Accurate Decision Good Jobs Mistake Place Reason

As companies move to web-based computing they get a lot more servers, which are difficult to manage and control. All kinds of problems can arise – security, quality and worms.

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