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

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
Every time you make the hard, correct decision you become a bit more courageous, and every time you make the easy, wrong decision you become a bit more cowardly. If you are CEO, these choices will lead to a courageous or cowardly company.
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Choice Courageous Decision
Here’s Kanye, the great musical genius of his generation in hip hop, but, like, society really can’t even deal with him because he’s always saying something that people go, ‘Oh, I can’t believe Kanye said that. I can’t believe he did that.’
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Believe Musical Genius People
You can take somebody’s job, you have to take their job, but you don’t have to take their dignity.
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Dignity Jobs Management
You’re better off being The Beatles than The Monkees, as a startup.
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Better Startup
It’s quite possible for an executive to hit her goal for the quarter by ignoring the future.
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Executive Goal Quarters
Relationships built from a business do better than the reverse.
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Better Built Relationship Reverse
There is no silver bullet. There are always options and the options have consequences.
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Bullets Consequences Silver
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
There are no silver bullets.
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Bullets Growth No Silver
Early in my career as an engineer, I’d learned that all decisions were objective until the first line of code was written. After that, all decisions were emotional.
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Career Decision Emotional
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 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
In a company, hundreds of decisions get made, but objectives and goals are thin.
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Decision Goal Made
A manager can’t act like a role model. They need to BE a role model.
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Manager Models Needs Role
Here’s where we are and here’s what I didn’t recognize about us and about you when I made the decision, and now it is what it is.
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About Decision Made Now Recognize

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