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You’re better off being The Beatles than The Monkees, as a startup.

Ben Horowitz

Business ends up being very dynamic and situational.
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Business Dynamic Ends Situation
If you have never done the job, how do you know what to want?
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Done Jobs never Want
In Silicon Valley, when you’re a private company, the entrepreneur can do no wrong.
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Company Entrepreneur Valleys
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
As a startup CEO, I slept like a baby. I woke up every 2 hours and cried.
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Baby Hours Motivation
A manager can’t act like a role model. They need to BE a role model.
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Manager Models Needs Role
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
A key thing in being a leader is you’ve got to pause yourself.
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Keys Leader Management
The trouble with innovation is that truly innovative ideas often look like bad ideas at the time.
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Ideas Innovation Looks
As companies move to web-based computing they get a lot more servers, which are difficult to manage and control. All kinds of problems can arise – security, quality and worms.
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Kind Moving Quality
You’re better off being The Beatles than The Monkees, as a startup.
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Better Startup
Note to self: It’s a good idea to ask, “What am I not doing?
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Ask Good Ideas Notes Self
I believe in strength over lack of weakness.
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Believe Strength Weakness
Leadership is hard to train on.
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Hard Leadership Train
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
Breakthrough ideas usually come from guys who look like they’re hallucinating
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Guy Hallucinating Ideas Looks

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