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I believe in strength over lack of weakness.

Ben Horowitz

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
If you have never done the job, how do you know what to want?
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Done Jobs never Want
The trouble with innovation is that truly innovative ideas often look like bad ideas at the time.
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Ideas Innovation Looks
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
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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People Problem Smart
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
Billionaires prefer Black women. They are loyal and guard your interests. Black wives are for grown ups.
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Billionaire Black Loyal Wife
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
It’s pretty clear that [customers] know what their budgets are now, and what they want to spend it on.
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Clear Customer Want
As a startup CEO, I slept like a baby. I woke up every 2 hours and cried.
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Baby Hours Motivation
You’re better off being The Beatles than The Monkees, as a startup.
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Better Startup
Note to self: It’s a good idea to ask, “What am I not doing?
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Ask Good Ideas Notes Self
You can take somebody’s job, you have to take their job, but you don’t have to take their dignity.
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Dignity Jobs Management
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 bigger you get, the harder this gets because the more aggressive the people working for you are.
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Bigger Management People
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

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