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The one thing with stress is, you’ve got to keep your focus on what you can do, not what happened to you.

Ben Horowitz

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 trouble with innovation is that truly innovative ideas often look like bad ideas at the time.
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Ideas Innovation Looks
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
The only thing that prepares you to run a company is running a company.
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Company Repair Running
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
When raising money, you want to look through the lens of ‘What happens when things go wrong?’
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Lenses Looks Want
You don’t need every investor to believe that you can succeed. You only need one.
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Believe Inspiration Needs
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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People Said Thinking
The right answer on raises is you have to be formal. You have to be formal to save your own culture.
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Answer Culture Management
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
As a company grows, communication becomes its biggest challenge.
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Challenges Communication Company
A CEO needs great intelligence and great courage. And I always found my courage was tested more.
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Entrepreneur Found Needs
Don’t punk out and don’t quit.
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Inspirational Motivational Quit
How do you make your company a good place to work in general? That’s a really really really large and complex set of skills.
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Jobs Skills Training
Note to self: It’s a good idea to ask, “What am I not doing?
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Ask Good Ideas Notes Self
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

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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