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When raising money, you want to look through the lens of ‘What happens when things go wrong?’

Ben Horowitz

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
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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Lemming Sheep Venture
The important thing about mobile is, everybody has a computer in their pocket. The implications of so many people connected to the Internet all the time from the standpoint of education is incredible.
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Important People Phones
The only thing that prepares you to run a company is running a company.
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Company Repair Running
When raising money, you want to look through the lens of ‘What happens when things go wrong?’
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Lenses Looks Want
Leadership is hard to train on.
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Hard Leadership Train
Every time you make the hard, correct decision you become a bit more courageous, and every time you make the easy, wrong decision you become a bit more cowardly. If you are CEO, these choices will lead to a courageous or cowardly company.
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Choice Courageous Decision
You don’t need every investor to believe that you can succeed. You only need one.
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Believe Inspiration Needs
I believe in strength over lack of weakness.
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Believe Strength Weakness
The key to high-quality communication is trust, and its hard to trust somebody that you dont know.
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Communication Keys Quality
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
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
It turns out that is exactly what product strategy is all about—figuring out the right product is the innovator’s job, not the customer’s job.
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Customer Figuring Jobs Product Strategy Turns
As a startup CEO, I slept like a baby. I woke up every 2 hours and cried.
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Baby Hours Motivation
You can take somebody’s job, you have to take their job, but you don’t have to take their dignity.
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Dignity Jobs Management
For example, the vast majority of security break-ins occur as a result of problems with known fixes. With an automated system, you can keep up to date.
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Date Example Majority Problem Result

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