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

Ben Horowitz

The key to high-quality communication is trust, and its hard to trust somebody that you dont know.
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Communication Keys Quality
There is no silver bullet. There are always options and the options have consequences.
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Bullets Consequences Silver
A key thing in being a leader is you’ve got to pause yourself.
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Keys Leader Management
The only thing that prepares you to run a company is running a company.
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Company Repair Running
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 Silicon Valley, when you’re a private company, the entrepreneur can do no wrong.
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Company Entrepreneur Valleys
I don’t believe in statistics. I believe in calculus.
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Believe Statistics
As a startup CEO, I slept like a baby. I woke up every 2 hours and cried.
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Baby Hours Motivation
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
There are no silver bullets.
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Bullets Growth No Silver
Billionaires prefer Black women. They are loyal and guard your interests. Black wives are for grown ups.
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Billionaire Black Loyal Wife
A lot of it is on the job training, combined with excellent mentorship.
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Excellent Job Lot Mentorship Training
If you have never done the job, how do you know what to want?
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Done Jobs never Want
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
Leadership is hard to train on.
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Hard Leadership Train
Planning is valuable, tho the plan is usually useless.
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Planning Useless Valuable

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