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As a startup CEO, I slept like a baby. I woke up every 2 hours and cried.

Ben Horowitz

When raising money, you want to look through the lens of ‘What happens when things go wrong?’
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Lenses Looks Want
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
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
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
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
I don’t believe in statistics. I believe in calculus.
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Believe Statistics
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
You don’t need every investor to believe that you can succeed. You only need one.
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Believe Inspiration Needs
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
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
These decisions intensify when you run a company, because the consequences get magnified 1,000 fold. As in life, the excuses for CEOs making the wrong choice are always plentiful.
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Choice Consequences Life Magnified Plentiful Wrong
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
I believe in strength over lack of weakness.
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Believe Strength Weakness
As a company grows, communication becomes its biggest challenge.
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Challenges Communication Company
There are no silver bullets.
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Bullets Growth No Silver

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