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The key to high-quality communication is trust, and its hard to trust somebody that you dont know.

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
It’s hard in daily life. It’s even harder in management because it’s the stress of the moment.
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Daily Life Management Stress
In my experience as CEO, I found that the most important decisions tested my courage far more than my intelligence.
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Decision Found Important
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
You don’t need every investor to believe that you can succeed. You only need one.
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Believe Inspiration Needs
If you have never done the job, how do you know what to want?
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Done Jobs never Want
There are no silver bullets.
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Bullets Growth No Silver
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
The person they’re working with, is going to be the person they’ll know more. So if that person leaves, they’re going to go – well, should have I left too? What did they get and how does that compare to my deal.
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Company Deal Leaves Management
Hire sales people who are really smart problem solvers, but lack courage, hunger and competitiveness, and your company will go out of business.
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People Problem Smart
In a company, hundreds of decisions get made, but objectives and goals are thin.
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Decision Goal Made
I don’t believe in statistics. I believe in calculus.
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Believe Statistics
One of the great things about building a tech company is the amazing people that you can hire.
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Building Great People Things
In life, everybody faces choices between doing what’s popular, easy, and wrong vs. doing what’s lonely, difficult, and right.
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Decision Lonely 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
The only thing that prepares you to run a company is running a company.
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Company Repair Running

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