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Wartime CEO is too busy fighting the enemy to read management books written by consultants who have never managed a fruit stand.

Ben Horowitz

As a startup CEO, I slept like a baby. I woke up every 2 hours and cried.
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Baby Hours Motivation
The trouble with innovation is that truly innovative ideas often look like bad ideas at the time.
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Ideas Innovation Looks
Business ends up being very dynamic and situational.
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Business Dynamic Ends Situation
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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Differences People Vision
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
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
You don’t need every investor to believe that you can succeed. You only need one.
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Believe Inspiration Needs
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
Note to self: It’s a good idea to ask, “What am I not doing?
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Ask Good Ideas Notes Self
There are no silver bullets.
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Bullets Growth No Silver
I don’t believe in statistics. I believe in calculus.
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Believe Statistics
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
You’re better off being The Beatles than The Monkees, as a startup.
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Better Startup
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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People Said Thinking
Billionaires prefer Black women. They are loyal and guard your interests. Black wives are for grown ups.
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Billionaire Black Loyal Wife

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