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As a company grows, communication becomes its biggest challenge.

Ben Horowitz

Yeah, I became a successful entrepreneur… Eventually
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Become Entrepreneur Successful
It turns out that is exactly what product strategy is all about—figuring out the right product is the innovator’s job, not the customer’s job.
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Customer Figuring Jobs Product Strategy Turns
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
The right answer on raises is you have to be formal. You have to be formal to save your own culture.
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Answer Culture Management
Leadership is hard to train on.
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Hard Leadership Train
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
Sometimes an organization doesn’t need a solution; it just needs clarity.
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Clarity Needs Organization
A CEO needs great intelligence and great courage. And I always found my courage was tested more.
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Entrepreneur Found Needs
The trouble with innovation is that truly innovative ideas often look like bad ideas at the time.
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Ideas Innovation Looks
In a company, hundreds of decisions get made, but objectives and goals are thin.
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Decision Goal Made
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
You don’t need every investor to believe that you can succeed. You only need one.
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Believe Inspiration Needs
Wartime CEO is too busy fighting the enemy to read management books written by consultants who have never managed a fruit stand.
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Book Enemy Fighting
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
The only thing that prepares you to run a company is running a company.
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Company Repair Running
What do you get when you cross a herd of sheep with a herd of lemmings? A herd of venture capitalists.
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Lemming Sheep Venture

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