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Relationships built from a business do better than the reverse.

Ben Horowitz

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
There is no silver bullet. There are always options and the options have consequences.
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Bullets Consequences Silver
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
A CEO needs great intelligence and great courage. And I always found my courage was tested more.
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Entrepreneur Found Needs
The trouble with innovation is that truly innovative ideas often look like bad ideas at the time.
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Ideas Innovation Looks
What do you get when you cross a herd of sheep with a herd of lemmings? A herd of venture capitalists.
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Lemming Sheep Venture
In a company, hundreds of decisions get made, but objectives and goals are thin.
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Decision Goal Made
Sometimes an organization doesn’t need a solution; it just needs clarity.
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Clarity Needs Organization
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
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
You’re better off being The Beatles than The Monkees, as a startup.
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Better Startup
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 bigger you get, the harder this gets because the more aggressive the people working for you are.
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Bigger Management People
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
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

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