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Ben Horowitz

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
Until you make the effort to get to know someone or something, you don’t know anything.
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Anything Effort Knows Someone Something
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
As a company grows, communication becomes its biggest challenge.
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Challenges Communication Company
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
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
Sometimes an organization doesn’t need a solution; it just needs clarity.
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Clarity Needs Organization
You know what the difference between a vision and a hallucination is? They call it a vision when other people can see it.
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Differences People Vision
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
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
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
A key thing in being a leader is you’ve got to pause yourself.
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Keys Leader Management
I emphasize to C.E.O.s, you have to have a story in the minds of the employees. It’s hard to memorize objectives, but it’s easy to remember a story.
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Mind Remember Stories
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
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
A CEO needs great intelligence and great courage. And I always found my courage was tested more.
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Entrepreneur Found Needs

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