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

Ben Horowitz

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
Yeah, I became a successful entrepreneur… Eventually
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Become Entrepreneur Successful
In life, everybody faces choices between doing what’s popular, easy, and wrong vs. doing what’s lonely, difficult, and right.
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Decision Lonely Running
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
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
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
The important thing about mobile is, everybody has a computer in their pocket. The implications of so many people connected to the Internet all the time from the standpoint of education is incredible.
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Important People Phones
Sometimes an organization doesn’t need a solution; it just needs clarity.
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Clarity Needs Organization
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
How do you make your company a good place to work in general? That’s a really really really large and complex set of skills.
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Jobs Skills Training
A lot of it is on the job training, combined with excellent mentorship.
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Excellent Job Lot Mentorship Training
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
When raising money, you want to look through the lens of ‘What happens when things go wrong?’
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Lenses Looks Want
You’re better off being The Beatles than The Monkees, as a startup.
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Better Startup
The trouble with innovation is that truly innovative ideas often look like bad ideas at the time.
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Ideas Innovation Looks

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