很久之前就听说男神Ben Horowitz这本旷世奇书，然后之前草草读过一遍，总觉得要再细细看n遍才能明白些许，可是总抽不出来时间静静读书。

终于最近真的是快马加鞭再次仔仔细细一字一句的读掉了这本Best Book of 2014. 废话不多说，下面是读书笔记：

1. No shortcut to knowledge, especially knowledge gained from personal experience. Following conventional wisdom and relying on shortcuts can be worse than knowing nothing at all.

2. Leadership is the ability to get some to follow you even if only out of curiosity.

3. The importance of founders to run the companies. Maybe the professional management team will send the company in one crazy direction because of lacking knowledge in technology and products.

4. “Flowers are really cheap, but divorce is expensive” reminds him of the importance of the family. “I had to stop being a boy and become a man. I had to put first thing first. I had to consider the people who I cared about most before considering myself.” (The condition is his family are sweating in hot room with no money for the air conditioning)

5. Marc:” Do you know the best thing about startups?” Ben:”What?” Marc:”You only ever experience two emotions,: euphoria and terror. And I find that lack of sleep enhances them both.”

6. The most important rule of raising money privately: Look for a market of one. You only need one investor to say yes!

7. No matter who you are, you need two kinds of friends in your life. The first kind is one you can call when something good happens, and you need someone who will be excited for you. Not a fake excitement veiling envy, but a real excitement. You need someone who will actually be more excited for you than he would be if it had happened to him. The second kind of friend is somebody you can call when things go horribly wrong—when your life is on the line and you only have one phone call。

8. Figuring out the right product is the innovator’s job, not the customer’s job. The customer only knows what she thinks she wants based on her experience with the current product. The innovator can take into account everything that’s possible, but often must go against what she knows to be true. As a result, innovation requires a combination of knowledge, skill, and courage. Sometimes only the founder has the courage to ignore the data; we were running out of time, so I had to step in: “I don’t care about any of the existing requirements; I need you to reinvent the product and we need to win.” (Wartime CEO)

9. Markets weren’t “efficient” at finding the truth; they were just very efficient at converging on a conclusion—often the wrong conclusion.

10. “Well, boys, if you are going to have a dog race, then you are going to need a rabbit. And Oracle will be one hell of a rabbit.” When selling the company, you need the “rabbit” to make you hot and pricey.

这些都是Chapter 1-3的故事里面的笔记，本来之前决定之后的记在本子上面的，突然发现有些很好的零零散散的话，还是丢上来吧。

1. Spend zero time on what you could have done, and devote all of your time on what you might do. Because in the end, nobody cares; just run your company. （nobody cares)

To be continued……