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

Ben Horowitz

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
The trouble with innovation is that truly innovative ideas often look like bad ideas at the time.
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Ideas Innovation Looks
I don’t believe in statistics. I believe in calculus.
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Believe Statistics
One of the great things about building a tech company is the amazing people that you can hire.
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Building Great People Things
Nothing motivates a great employee more than a mission that’s so important that it supersedes everyone’s personal ambition.
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Ambition Important Mission
As a company grows, communication becomes its biggest challenge.
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Challenges Communication Company
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
Planning is valuable, tho the plan is usually useless.
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Planning Useless Valuable
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
Relationships built from a business do better than the reverse.
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Better Built Relationship Reverse
In life, you don’t have a level of confrontation and the nonsense you run into when you’re a CEO. CEOs aren’t born.
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Levels Nonsense Running
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
I believe in strength over lack of weakness.
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Believe Strength Weakness
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
Breakthrough ideas usually come from guys who look like they’re hallucinating
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Guy Hallucinating Ideas Looks
In Silicon Valley, when you’re a private company, the entrepreneur can do no wrong.
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Company Entrepreneur Valleys

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