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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.

Ben Horowitz

You’re better off being The Beatles than The Monkees, as a startup.
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Better Startup
Note to self: It’s a good idea to ask, “What am I not doing?
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Ask Good Ideas Notes Self
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
In life, you don’t have a level of confrontation and the nonsense you run into when you’re a CEO. CEOs aren’t born.
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Levels Nonsense Running
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
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
One of the great things about building a tech company is the amazing people that you can hire.
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Building Great People Things
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
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
Relationships built from a business do better than the reverse.
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Better Built Relationship Reverse
You don’t need every investor to believe that you can succeed. You only need one.
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Believe Inspiration Needs
To succeed at selling a losing product, you must develop seriously superior sales techniques. In addition, you have to be massively competitive and incredibly hungry to survive in that environment.
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Losing Succeed Technique
In Silicon Valley, when you’re a private company, the entrepreneur can do no wrong.
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Company Entrepreneur Valleys
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
The trouble with innovation is that truly innovative ideas often look like bad ideas at the time.
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Ideas Innovation Looks
It’s quite possible for an executive to hit her goal for the quarter by ignoring the future.
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Executive Goal Quarters

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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