The trouble with innovation is that truly innovative ideas often look like bad ideas at the time.
BEN HOROWITZHire 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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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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Relationships built from a business do better than the reverse.
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Yeah, I became a successful entrepreneur… Eventually
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Mark [Andressen] was more popular than me at the time … He was like Beyoncé, I was Kelly Rowlings
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I believe in strength over lack of weakness.
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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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The bigger you get, the harder this gets because the more aggressive the people working for you are.
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There are no silver bullets.
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There are no shortcuts to knowledge, especially knowledge gained from personal experience. Following conventional wisdom and relying on shortcuts can be worse than knowing nothing at all.
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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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It turns out that is exactly what product strategy is all about—figuring out the right product is the innovator’s job, not the customer’s job.
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Until you make the effort to get to know someone or something, you don’t know anything.
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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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A CEO needs great intelligence and great courage. And I always found my courage was tested more.
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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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