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

Ben Horowitz

Nothing motivates a great employee more than a mission that’s so important that it supersedes everyone’s personal ambition.
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Ambition Important Mission
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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Important People Phones
Leadership is hard to train on.
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Hard Leadership Train
Breakthrough ideas usually come from guys who look like they’re hallucinating
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Guy Hallucinating Ideas Looks
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
Relationships built from a business do better than the reverse.
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Better Built Relationship Reverse
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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Lemming Sheep Venture
A CEO needs great intelligence and great courage. And I always found my courage was tested more.
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Entrepreneur Found Needs
You don’t need every investor to believe that you can succeed. You only need one.
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Believe Inspiration Needs
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
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
Don’t punk out and don’t quit.
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Inspirational Motivational Quit
A lot of it is on the job training, combined with excellent mentorship.
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Excellent Job Lot Mentorship Training
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
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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Great Company Investment Stage
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

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

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