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In Silicon Valley, when you’re a private company, the entrepreneur can do no wrong.

Ben Horowitz

How do you make your company a good place to work in general? That’s a really really really large and complex set of skills.
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Jobs Skills Training
Volatility and length, that’s the value on an option. 10 years on a startup stock, that’s a big valuable thing.
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Length Management Years
A lot of it is on the job training, combined with excellent mentorship.
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Excellent Job Lot Mentorship Training
In Silicon Valley, when you’re a private company, the entrepreneur can do no wrong.
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Company Entrepreneur Valleys
Note to self: It’s a good idea to ask, “What am I not doing?
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Ask Good Ideas Notes Self
Your employees know each other better than they know you.
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Employee Knows Management
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
Relationships built from a business do better than the reverse.
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Better Built Relationship Reverse
There are no shortcuts to knowledge, especially knowledge gained from personal experience. Following conventional wisdom and relying on shortcuts can be worse than knowing nothing at all.
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Knowing Knowledge Gain Nothing Shortcut
Don’t punk out and don’t quit.
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Inspirational Motivational Quit
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 bigger you get, the harder this gets because the more aggressive the people working for you are.
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Bigger Management People
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
There is no silver bullet. There are always options and the options have consequences.
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Bullets Consequences Silver
Sometimes an organization doesn’t need a solution; it just needs clarity.
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Clarity Needs Organization

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