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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

Mark [Andressen] was more popular than me at the time … He was like Beyoncé, I was Kelly Rowlings
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Beyonce Mark More Popular Time
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
There is no silver bullet. There are always options and the options have consequences.
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Bullets Consequences Silver
As a company grows, communication becomes its biggest challenge.
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Challenges Communication Company
Relationships built from a business do better than the reverse.
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Better Built Relationship Reverse
The right answer on raises is you have to be formal. You have to be formal to save your own culture.
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Answer Culture Management
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
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
Your employees know each other better than they know you.
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Employee Knows Management
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 only thing that prepares you to run a company is running a company.
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Company Repair Running
It’s quite possible for an executive to hit her goal for the quarter by ignoring the future.
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Executive Goal Quarters
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
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 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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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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