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Ben Horowitz

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
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
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
Your employees know each other better than they know you.
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Employee Knows Management
Planning is valuable, tho the plan is usually useless.
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Planning Useless Valuable
I emphasize to C.E.O.s, you have to have a story in the minds of the employees. It’s hard to memorize objectives, but it’s easy to remember a story.
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Mind Remember Stories
For example, the vast majority of security break-ins occur as a result of problems with known fixes. With an automated system, you can keep up to date.
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Date Example Majority Problem Result
Here’s where we are and here’s what I didn’t recognize about us and about you when I made the decision, and now it is what it is.
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About Decision Made Now Recognize
A manager can’t act like a role model. They need to BE a role model.
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Manager Models Needs Role
You don’t need every investor to believe that you can succeed. You only need one.
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Believe Inspiration Needs
Yeah, I became a successful entrepreneur… Eventually
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Become Entrepreneur Successful
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
Nothing motivates a great employee more than a mission that’s so important that it supersedes everyone’s personal ambition.
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Ambition Important Mission
As a startup CEO, I slept like a baby. I woke up every 2 hours and cried.
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Baby Hours Motivation
In a company, hundreds of decisions get made, but objectives and goals are thin.
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Decision Goal Made
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

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