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Groupon looked like a very high valuation, but any investment in a great company at any stage is almost always a good investment.

Ben Horowitz

There are no silver bullets.
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Bullets Growth No Silver
In my experience as CEO, I found that the most important decisions tested my courage far more than my intelligence.
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Decision Found Important
It’s hard in daily life. It’s even harder in management because it’s the stress of the moment.
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Daily Life Management Stress
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 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
I don’t believe in statistics. I believe in calculus.
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Believe Statistics
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
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
The only thing that prepares you to run a company is running a company.
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Company Repair Running
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
A key thing in being a leader is you’ve got to pause yourself.
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Keys Leader Management
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
Leadership is hard to train on.
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Hard Leadership Train
In life, everybody faces choices between doing what’s popular, easy, and wrong vs. doing what’s lonely, difficult, and right.
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Decision Lonely Running
Here’s where we are and here’s what I didn’t recognize about us and about you when I made the decision, and now it is what it is.
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About Decision Made Now Recognize
Business ends up being very dynamic and situational.
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Business Dynamic Ends Situation

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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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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