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The only thing that prepares you to run a company is running a company.

Ben Horowitz

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
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
There is no silver bullet. There are always options and the options have consequences.
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Bullets Consequences Silver
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
Here’s where we are and here’s what I didn’t recognize about us and about you when I made the decision, and now it is what it is.
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About Decision Made Now Recognize
I believe in strength over lack of weakness.
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Believe Strength Weakness
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
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
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
A CEO needs great intelligence and great courage. And I always found my courage was tested more.
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Entrepreneur Found Needs
I emphasize to C.E.O.s, you have to have a story in the minds of the employees. It’s hard to memorize objectives, but it’s easy to remember a story.
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Mind Remember Stories
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
Sometimes an organization doesn’t need a solution; it just needs clarity.
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Clarity Needs Organization
In Silicon Valley, when you’re a private company, the entrepreneur can do no wrong.
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Company Entrepreneur Valleys
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

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