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What do you get when you cross a herd of sheep with a herd of lemmings? A herd of venture capitalists.

Ben Horowitz

Billionaires prefer Black women. They are loyal and guard your interests. Black wives are for grown ups.
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Billionaire Black Loyal Wife
Planning is valuable, tho the plan is usually useless.
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Planning Useless Valuable
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
Note to self: It’s a good idea to ask, “What am I not doing?
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Ask Good Ideas Notes Self
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
If you have never done the job, how do you know what to want?
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Done Jobs never Want
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
Yeah, I became a successful entrepreneur… Eventually
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Become Entrepreneur Successful
Hire sales people who are really smart problem solvers, but lack courage, hunger and competitiveness, and your company will go out of business.
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People Problem Smart
The person they’re working with, is going to be the person they’ll know more. So if that person leaves, they’re going to go – well, should have I left too? What did they get and how does that compare to my deal.
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Company Deal Leaves Management
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
Don’t punk out and don’t quit.
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Inspirational Motivational Quit
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
Leadership is hard to train on.
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Hard Leadership Train
A lot of it is on the job training, combined with excellent mentorship.
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Excellent Job Lot Mentorship Training
I don’t believe in statistics. I believe in calculus.
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Believe Statistics

What do you get when you cross a herd of sheep with a herd of lemmings? A herd of venture capitalists.

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