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There are no silver bullets.

Ben Horowitz

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
Your employees know each other better than they know you.
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Employee Knows Management
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
You’re better off being The Beatles than The Monkees, as a startup.
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Better Startup
There are no silver bullets.
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Bullets Growth No Silver
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
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
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
I believe in strength over lack of weakness.
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Believe Strength Weakness
It’s hard in daily life. It’s even harder in management because it’s the stress of the moment.
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Daily Life Management Stress
When you’re making a critical decision, you have to understand how it’s going to be interpreted from all points of view. Not just your point of view, not just the person you’re talking to, but the people that aren’t in the room. Everybody else.
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Critical Decisions Talking Views
I don’t believe in statistics. I believe in calculus.
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Believe Statistics
The only thing that prepares you to run a company is running a company.
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Company Repair Running
There is no silver bullet. There are always options and the options have consequences.
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Bullets Consequences Silver
Here’s Kanye, the great musical genius of his generation in hip hop, but, like, society really can’t even deal with him because he’s always saying something that people go, ‘Oh, I can’t believe Kanye said that. I can’t believe he did that.’
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Believe Musical Genius People
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

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