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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

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
The right answer on raises is you have to be formal. You have to be formal to save your own culture.
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Answer Culture Management
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
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
A key thing in being a leader is you’ve got to pause yourself.
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Keys Leader Management
I believe in strength over lack of weakness.
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Believe Strength Weakness
There are no shortcuts to knowledge, especially knowledge gained from personal experience. Following conventional wisdom and relying on shortcuts can be worse than knowing nothing at all.
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Knowing Knowledge Gain Nothing Shortcut
The key to high-quality communication is trust, and its hard to trust somebody that you dont know.
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Communication Keys Quality
Relationships built from a business do better than the reverse.
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Better Built Relationship Reverse
Your employees know each other better than they know you.
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Employee Knows Management
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
Yeah, I became a successful entrepreneur… Eventually
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Become Entrepreneur Successful
You’re better off being The Beatles than The Monkees, as a startup.
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Better Startup
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 my experience as CEO, I found that the most important decisions tested my courage far more than my intelligence.
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Decision Found Important
A CEO needs great intelligence and great courage. And I always found my courage was tested more.
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Entrepreneur Found Needs

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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