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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

Don’t punk out and don’t quit.
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Inspirational Motivational Quit
The one thing with stress is, you’ve got to keep your focus on what you can do, not what happened to you.
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Focus Management Stress
I believe in strength over lack of weakness.
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Believe Strength Weakness
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
When raising money, you want to look through the lens of ‘What happens when things go wrong?’
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Lenses Looks Want
In a company, hundreds of decisions get made, but objectives and goals are thin.
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Decision Goal Made
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
Here’s Kanye, the great musical genius of his generation in hip hop, but, like, society really can’t even deal with him because he’s always saying something that people go, ‘Oh, I can’t believe Kanye said that. I can’t believe he did that.’
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Believe Musical Genius People
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
Note to self: It’s a good idea to ask, “What am I not doing?
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Ask Good Ideas Notes Self
The trouble with innovation is that truly innovative ideas often look like bad ideas at the time.
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Ideas Innovation Looks
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
Most large mistakes in organizational design come from putting the individual ambitions of the people at the top of the organization ahead of the communication paths for the people at the bottom of the organization.
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Ambition Communication Mistakes
Yeah, I became a successful entrepreneur… Eventually
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Become Entrepreneur Successful
As a startup CEO, I slept like a baby. I woke up every 2 hours and cried.
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Baby Hours Motivation
Generally the reason they fail in the job is, you made some mistake in the hiring process in that you didn’t match… them to the needs of your company accurately enough. That’s the #1 reason this fails. And that’s generally a good place to start.
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Accurate Decision Good Jobs Mistake Place Reason

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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