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Women as consumers are a very powerful force.
Heidi Roizen / Executive
Force
Powerful
Powerful Force
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Venture capital is debt. People don't understand that.
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Venture
Venture Capital
Capital
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The glass ceiling doesn't apply when you're building your own house
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Ceilings
Glasses
House
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Do deals with the people you want to work with, and the success will follow.
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Deals
Success Work People
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Don't define yourself by your mistakes or by the single thing you are at your work.
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Work Yourself Your
Define
Single Thing
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I'm the classic old-school entrepreneur that says let's build companies of lasting value.
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Classic
Lasting
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Entrepreneurs are always super optimistic. If they weren't they wouldn't be entrepreneurs.
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Optimistic
Entrepreneur
Ifs
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I thought of calorie-counting as a budget: I was happy to skip bread at dinner so I could 'spend' on a glass of wine.
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Bread
Skip
Wine
Budget
Glass
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You know what kind of companies generally survive? Companies that make more money than they spend. I know, duh, right?
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Duh
Money Know More
Survive
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The entrepreneurial mind-set is that risk is the heightened probability that there is a big range of possible outcomes.
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Mind
Outcomes
Risk
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I like to make good things happen for other people. It makes me happy, and I believe it's good for my business as well.
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Good Things
Things Happen
Business Good Believe
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The individual dynamics going on within a venture fund are critically important to you. Unfortunately, they're also very opaque.
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Dynamics
Fund
Opaque
Venture
Critically
Unfortunately
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You can't write about a personal struggle if you're going to water it down to meet everyone's expectations about what's appropriate.
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Appropriate
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I think women let themselves be burdened by failures much more than men do. They agonize - and I do it a lot, too - and rethink them.
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Men Women More
Agonize
Burdened
Women Men More
Rethink
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If you're the only woman in the room, and you raise your hand, there's a good chance your question's going to get answered. You stand out.
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Good Chance
Good Chance Your
Answered
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I don't know any successful entrepreneur that doesn't have at least a handful of stories about the things they did that went horribly wrong.
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Entrepreneur
Handful
Horribly
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If you have to be a female in business, Silicon Valley is the best place because it's a meritocracy. It's not about who you are, it's about what you can do.
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Silicon
Silicon Valley
Valley
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I put working out on my calendar as if it were a part of my job. It makes exercise as important a priority as brushing my teeth - something I need to do every day.
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Brushing
Teeth
Exercise Day Every Day
Calendar
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My dog wants the entrepreneurial community to know how thankful she is for the fact that she gets to go out. She has heard more pitches than probably much of the world.
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Thankful
Entrepreneurial
Pitches
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Isn't it interesting that markets are not just perfect? In business school and economic theory, you learn all about those perfect markets, and there's no such thing as a perfect market.
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Business School
Economic Theory
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I bought myself a DVD set of 'Lost' and only allowed myself to watch it while I was strength training. Sometimes I'd exercise longer than I intended to because I didn't want to turn it off. Talk about positive reinforcement!
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Reinforcement
Intended
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I can't tell you how many board meetings I've been in where the CEO is anguished over the impacts on morale that cost cutting or layoffs will bring about. You know what hurts morale even more than cost-cutting and layoffs? Going out of business.
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Ceo
Cutting
Meetings
Morale
Anguished
Board
Hurts
Impacts
Layoffs
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I know a few CEOs who delegate the understanding of their financials and their business metrics to the CFO, and then stop worrying about all that 'numbers stuff.' Don't do that. You have to know your numbers inside and out - they are your life blood.
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Numbers
Life Business Your
Ceos
Delegate
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You know what somebody else's fundraise metrics are to you? Irrelevant. You know what your own last round post was? Irrelevant. Yes, I know, not legally, because of those pesky rights and preferences. But emotionally, trust me: it is irrelevant now. We even have a name for this - valuation nostalgia.
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Irrelevant
Nostalgia
Trust Me
Trust Your Me
Emotionally
Round
Legally
Post
Preferences
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I used to fall into the trap of thinking that taking care of my husband and kids was more important than taking care of myself. Now I have a new attitude: You know when you're on an airplane and the manual tells you to put on your oxygen mask first and then help the person next to you? I feel the same way about my health.
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Airplane
Mask
Oxygen
Manual
Trap
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