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I don’t believe in statistics. I believe in calculus.

Ben Horowitz

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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Express Inspiration Jobs People
The only thing that prepares you to run a company is running a company.
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Company Repair Running
I believe in strength over lack of weakness.
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Believe Strength Weakness
You don’t need every investor to believe that you can succeed. You only need one.
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Believe Inspiration Needs
In Silicon Valley, when you’re a private company, the entrepreneur can do no wrong.
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Company Entrepreneur Valleys
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
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
If you have never done the job, how do you know what to want?
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Done Jobs never Want
Planning is valuable, tho the plan is usually useless.
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Planning Useless Valuable
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
Don’t punk out and don’t quit.
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Inspirational Motivational Quit
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
When raising money, you want to look through the lens of ‘What happens when things go wrong?’
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Lenses Looks Want
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
Note to self: It’s a good idea to ask, “What am I not doing?
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Ask Good Ideas Notes Self
A manager can’t act like a role model. They need to BE a role model.
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Manager Models Needs Role

I don’t believe in statistics. I believe in calculus.

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