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It’s quite possible for an executive to hit her goal for the quarter by ignoring the future.

Ben Horowitz

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
I believe in strength over lack of weakness.
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Believe Strength Weakness
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
You’re better off being The Beatles than The Monkees, as a startup.
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Better Startup
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
Mark [Andressen] was more popular than me at the time … He was like Beyoncé, I was Kelly Rowlings
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Beyonce Mark More Popular Time
Yeah, I became a successful entrepreneur… Eventually
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Become Entrepreneur Successful
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
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
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
A lot of it is on the job training, combined with excellent mentorship.
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Excellent Job Lot Mentorship Training
Breakthrough ideas usually come from guys who look like they’re hallucinating
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Guy Hallucinating Ideas Looks
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
In a company, hundreds of decisions get made, but objectives and goals are thin.
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Decision Goal Made
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
If you have never done the job, how do you know what to want?
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Done Jobs never Want

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