There are no silver bullets.
BEN HOROWITZThe trouble with innovation is that truly innovative ideas often look like bad ideas at the time.
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You don’t need every investor to believe that you can succeed. You only need one.
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Yeah, I became a successful entrepreneur… Eventually
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I don’t believe in statistics. I believe in calculus.
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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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A manager can’t act like a role model. They need to BE a role model.
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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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The important thing about mobile is, everybody has a computer in their pocket. The implications of so many people connected to the Internet all the time from the standpoint of education is incredible.
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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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Leadership is hard to train on.
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Billionaires prefer Black women. They are loyal and guard your interests. Black wives are for grown ups.
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The key to high-quality communication is trust, and its hard to trust somebody that you dont know.
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When raising money, you want to look through the lens of ‘What happens when things go wrong?’
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Hire sales people who are really smart problem solvers, but lack courage, hunger and competitiveness, and your company will go out of business.
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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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Sometimes an organization doesn’t need a solution; it just needs clarity.
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