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It’s pretty clear that [customers] know what their budgets are now, and what they want to spend it on.

Ben Horowitz

I believe in strength over lack of weakness.
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Believe Strength Weakness
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
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
Note to self: It’s a good idea to ask, “What am I not doing?
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Ask Good Ideas Notes Self
In a company, hundreds of decisions get made, but objectives and goals are thin.
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Decision Goal Made
Yeah, I became a successful entrepreneur… Eventually
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Become Entrepreneur Successful
Relationships built from a business do better than the reverse.
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Better Built Relationship Reverse
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
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
I emphasize to C.E.O.s, you have to have a story in the minds of the employees. It’s hard to memorize objectives, but it’s easy to remember a story.
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Mind Remember Stories
Breakthrough ideas usually come from guys who look like they’re hallucinating
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Guy Hallucinating Ideas Looks
It turns out that is exactly what product strategy is all about—figuring out the right product is the innovator’s job, not the customer’s job.
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Customer Figuring Jobs Product Strategy Turns
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
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
It’s pretty clear that [customers] know what their budgets are now, and what they want to spend it on.
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Clear Customer Want

It’s pretty clear that [customers] know what their budgets are now, and what they want to spend it on.

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