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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

Wartime CEO is too busy fighting the enemy to read management books written by consultants who have never managed a fruit stand.
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Book Enemy Fighting
When raising money, you want to look through the lens of ‘What happens when things go wrong?’
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Lenses Looks Want
The only thing that prepares you to run a company is running a company.
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Company Repair Running
In life, everybody faces choices between doing what’s popular, easy, and wrong vs. doing what’s lonely, difficult, and right.
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Decision Lonely Running
You don’t need every investor to believe that you can succeed. You only need one.
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Believe Inspiration Needs
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
There are no silver bullets.
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Bullets Growth No Silver
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
Relationships built from a business do better than the reverse.
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Better Built Relationship Reverse
If you have never done the job, how do you know what to want?
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Done Jobs never Want
In life, you don’t have a level of confrontation and the nonsense you run into when you’re a CEO. CEOs aren’t born.
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Levels Nonsense 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
I think theres a lot to be said about just enjoying your work. It can be very contrived when people say their work is for the good of mankind.
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People Said Thinking
Your employees know each other better than they know you.
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Employee Knows Management
Here’s Kanye, the great musical genius of his generation in hip hop, but, like, society really can’t even deal with him because he’s always saying something that people go, ‘Oh, I can’t believe Kanye said that. I can’t believe he did that.’
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Believe Musical Genius People

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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