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Until you make the effort to get to know someone or something, you don’t know anything.

Ben Horowitz

You don’t need every investor to believe that you can succeed. You only need one.
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Believe Inspiration Needs
As a startup CEO, I slept like a baby. I woke up every 2 hours and cried.
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Baby Hours Motivation
A manager can’t act like a role model. They need to BE a role model.
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Manager Models Needs Role
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
Don’t punk out and don’t quit.
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Inspirational Motivational Quit
Planning is valuable, tho the plan is usually useless.
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Planning Useless Valuable
For example, the vast majority of security break-ins occur as a result of problems with known fixes. With an automated system, you can keep up to date.
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Date Example Majority Problem Result
There are no silver bullets.
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Bullets Growth No Silver
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
Early in my career as an engineer, I’d learned that all decisions were objective until the first line of code was written. After that, all decisions were emotional.
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Career Decision Emotional
Yeah, I became a successful entrepreneur… Eventually
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Become Entrepreneur Successful
As a company grows, communication becomes its biggest challenge.
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Challenges Communication Company
I don’t believe in statistics. I believe in calculus.
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Believe Statistics
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
Volatility and length, that’s the value on an option. 10 years on a startup stock, that’s a big valuable thing.
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Length Management Years
Your employees know each other better than they know you.
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Employee Knows Management

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