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Mark [Andressen] was more popular than me at the time … He was like Beyoncé, I was Kelly Rowlings

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
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
Wartime CEO is too busy fighting the enemy to read management books written by consultants who have never managed a fruit stand.
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Book Enemy Fighting
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
Note to self: It’s a good idea to ask, “What am I not doing?
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Ask Good Ideas Notes Self
Business ends up being very dynamic and situational.
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Business Dynamic Ends Situation
When I was CEO, and I’d listen to music, a lot of people listen to music and you get inspiration from it. And a lot of things in hip hop are very instructive for being in business. Particularly, hip hop is a lot about business, and so it was very useful for me in any job.
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Express Inspiration Jobs People
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 bigger you get, the harder this gets because the more aggressive the people working for you are.
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Bigger Management People
There is no silver bullet. There are always options and the options have consequences.
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Bullets Consequences Silver
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
A CEO needs great intelligence and great courage. And I always found my courage was tested more.
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Entrepreneur Found Needs
As a startup CEO, I slept like a baby. I woke up every 2 hours and cried.
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Baby Hours Motivation
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
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
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

Mark [Andressen] was more popular than me at the time … He was like Beyoncé, I was Kelly Rowlings

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