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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

There are no silver bullets.
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Bullets Growth No Silver
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
The trouble with innovation is that truly innovative ideas often look like bad ideas at the time.
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Ideas Innovation Looks
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
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 can take somebody’s job, you have to take their job, but you don’t have to take their dignity.
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Dignity Jobs Management
It turns out that is exactly what product strategy is all about—figuring out the right product is the innovator’s job, not the customer’s job.
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Customer Figuring Jobs Product Strategy Turns
A key thing in being a leader is you’ve got to pause yourself.
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Keys Leader Management
As a startup CEO, I slept like a baby. I woke up every 2 hours and cried.
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Baby Hours Motivation
Relationships built from a business do better than the reverse.
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Better Built Relationship Reverse
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
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
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
The person they’re working with, is going to be the person they’ll know more. So if that person leaves, they’re going to go – well, should have I left too? What did they get and how does that compare to my deal.
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Company Deal Leaves Management
Yeah, I became a successful entrepreneur… Eventually
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Become Entrepreneur Successful
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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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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