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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.

Ben Horowitz

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
Yeah, I became a successful entrepreneur… Eventually
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Become Entrepreneur Successful
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
I don’t believe in statistics. I believe in calculus.
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Believe Statistics
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
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
There are no silver bullets.
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Bullets Growth No Silver
I believe in strength over lack of weakness.
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Believe Strength Weakness
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
In a company, hundreds of decisions get made, but objectives and goals are thin.
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Decision Goal Made
There is no silver bullet. There are always options and the options have consequences.
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Bullets Consequences Silver
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
You don’t need every investor to believe that you can succeed. You only need one.
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Believe Inspiration Needs
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
To succeed at selling a losing product, you must develop seriously superior sales techniques. In addition, you have to be massively competitive and incredibly hungry to survive in that environment.
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Losing Succeed Technique
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

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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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