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I believe in strength over lack of weakness.

Ben Horowitz

You’re better off being The Beatles than The Monkees, as a startup.
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Better Startup
The only thing that prepares you to run a company is running a company.
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Company Repair Running
There are no silver bullets.
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Bullets Growth No Silver
Relationships built from a business do better than the reverse.
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Better Built Relationship Reverse
The trouble with innovation is that truly innovative ideas often look like bad ideas at the time.
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Ideas Innovation Looks
Wartime CEO is too busy fighting the enemy to read management books written by consultants who have never managed a fruit stand.
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Book Enemy Fighting
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
Note to self: It’s a good idea to ask, “What am I not doing?
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Ask Good Ideas Notes Self
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
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
Planning is valuable, tho the plan is usually useless.
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Planning Useless Valuable
When raising money, you want to look through the lens of ‘What happens when things go wrong?’
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Lenses Looks Want
These decisions intensify when you run a company, because the consequences get magnified 1,000 fold. As in life, the excuses for CEOs making the wrong choice are always plentiful.
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Choice Consequences Life Magnified Plentiful Wrong
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
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
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

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