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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

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
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
Most large mistakes in organizational design come from putting the individual ambitions of the people at the top of the organization ahead of the communication paths for the people at the bottom of the organization.
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Ambition Communication Mistakes
There is no silver bullet. There are always options and the options have consequences.
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Bullets Consequences Silver
When raising money, you want to look through the lens of ‘What happens when things go wrong?’
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Lenses Looks Want
Sometimes an organization doesn’t need a solution; it just needs clarity.
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Clarity Needs Organization
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
I believe in strength over lack of weakness.
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Believe Strength Weakness
Leadership is hard to train on.
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Hard Leadership Train
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
I don’t believe in statistics. I believe in calculus.
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Believe Statistics
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
The only thing that prepares you to run a company is running a company.
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Company Repair Running
In Silicon Valley, when you’re a private company, the entrepreneur can do no wrong.
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Company Entrepreneur Valleys
There are no silver bullets.
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Bullets Growth No Silver
Planning is valuable, tho the plan is usually useless.
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Planning Useless Valuable

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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