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

Ben Horowitz

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
There are no silver bullets.
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Bullets Growth No Silver
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
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
The only thing that prepares you to run a company is running a company.
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Company Repair Running
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
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
In life, you don’t have a level of confrontation and the nonsense you run into when you’re a CEO. CEOs aren’t born.
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Levels Nonsense Running
Here’s Kanye, the great musical genius of his generation in hip hop, but, like, society really can’t even deal with him because he’s always saying something that people go, ‘Oh, I can’t believe Kanye said that. I can’t believe he did that.’
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Believe Musical Genius People
Don’t punk out and don’t quit.
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Inspirational Motivational Quit
There is no silver bullet. There are always options and the options have consequences.
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Bullets Consequences Silver
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
You don’t need every investor to believe that you can succeed. You only need one.
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Believe Inspiration Needs
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
Every time you make the hard, correct decision you become a bit more courageous, and every time you make the easy, wrong decision you become a bit more cowardly. If you are CEO, these choices will lead to a courageous or cowardly company.
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Choice Courageous Decision
To succeed at selling a losing product, you must develop seriously superior sales techniques. In addition, you have to be massively competitive and incredibly hungry to survive in that environment.
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Losing Succeed Technique

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