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The trouble with innovation is that truly innovative ideas often look like bad ideas at the time.

Ben Horowitz

When raising money, you want to look through the lens of ‘What happens when things go wrong?’
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Lenses Looks Want
A key thing in being a leader is you’ve got to pause yourself.
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Keys Leader Management
There are no silver bullets.
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Bullets Growth No Silver
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
A CEO needs great intelligence and great courage. And I always found my courage was tested more.
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Entrepreneur Found Needs
Planning is valuable, tho the plan is usually useless.
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Planning Useless Valuable
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
Every time you make the hard, correct decision you become a bit more courageous, and every time you make the easy, wrong decision you become a bit more cowardly. If you are CEO, these choices will lead to a courageous or cowardly company.
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Choice Courageous Decision
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
Business ends up being very dynamic and situational.
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Business Dynamic Ends Situation
The key to high-quality communication is trust, and its hard to trust somebody that you dont know.
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Communication Keys Quality
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
You don’t need every investor to believe that you can succeed. You only need one.
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Believe Inspiration Needs
In my experience as CEO, I found that the most important decisions tested my courage far more than my intelligence.
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Decision Found Important
If you have never done the job, how do you know what to want?
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Done Jobs never Want

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