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Over the last ten years, technological advances have dramatically lowered the financial bar for starting a new company, but the courage bar for building a great company remains as high as it has ever been.

Ben Horowitz

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
A CEO needs great intelligence and great courage. And I always found my courage was tested more.
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Entrepreneur Found Needs
There are no silver bullets.
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Bullets Growth No Silver
As a company grows, communication becomes its biggest challenge.
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Challenges Communication Company
In Silicon Valley, when you’re a private company, the entrepreneur can do no wrong.
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Company Entrepreneur Valleys
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’re better off being The Beatles than The Monkees, as a startup.
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Better Startup
You don’t need every investor to believe that you can succeed. You only need one.
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Believe Inspiration Needs
Over the last ten years, technological advances have dramatically lowered the financial bar for starting a new company, but the courage bar for building a great company remains as high as it has ever been.
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Bar Company Lasts Lower Years
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
Note to self: It’s a good idea to ask, “What am I not doing?
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Ask Good Ideas Notes Self
There are no silver bullets.
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Bullets Growth No Silver
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
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
Planning is valuable, tho the plan is usually useless.
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Planning Useless Valuable
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

Over the last ten years, technological advances have dramatically lowered the financial bar for starting a new company, but the courage bar for building a great company remains as high as it has ever been.

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Over the last ten years, technological advances have dramatically lowered the financial bar for starting a new company, but the courage bar for building a great company remains as high as it has ever been.

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