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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.

Ben Horowitz

You’re better off being The Beatles than The Monkees, as a startup.
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Better Startup
Breakthrough ideas usually come from guys who look like they’re hallucinating
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Guy Hallucinating Ideas Looks
Your employees know each other better than they know you.
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Employee Knows Management
Until you make the effort to get to know someone or something, you don’t know anything.
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Anything Effort Knows Someone Something
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
Note to self: It’s a good idea to ask, “What am I not doing?
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Ask Good Ideas Notes Self
A key thing in being a leader is you’ve got to pause yourself.
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Keys Leader Management
In Silicon Valley, when you’re a private company, the entrepreneur can do no wrong.
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Company Entrepreneur Valleys
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
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
Volatility and length, that’s the value on an option. 10 years on a startup stock, that’s a big valuable thing.
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Length Management Years
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
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
What do you get when you cross a herd of sheep with a herd of lemmings? A herd of venture capitalists.
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Lemming Sheep Venture
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
You know what the difference between a vision and a hallucination is? They call it a vision when other people can see it.
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Differences People Vision

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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