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What do you get when you cross a herd of sheep with a herd of lemmings? A herd of venture capitalists.

Ben Horowitz

As a startup CEO, I slept like a baby. I woke up every 2 hours and cried.
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Baby Hours Motivation
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
A lot of it is on the job training, combined with excellent mentorship.
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Excellent Job Lot Mentorship Training
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
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
Generally the reason they fail in the job is, you made some mistake in the hiring process in that you didn’t match… them to the needs of your company accurately enough. That’s the #1 reason this fails. And that’s generally a good place to start.
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Accurate Decision Good Jobs Mistake Place Reason
Planning is valuable, tho the plan is usually useless.
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Planning Useless Valuable
There are no silver bullets.
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Bullets Growth No Silver
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
Breakthrough ideas usually come from guys who look like they’re hallucinating
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Guy Hallucinating Ideas Looks
Note to self: It’s a good idea to ask, “What am I not doing?
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Ask Good Ideas Notes Self
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
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
I don’t believe in statistics. I believe in calculus.
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Believe Statistics

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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