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If you have never done the job, how do you know what to want?

Ben Horowitz

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 key to high-quality communication is trust, and its hard to trust somebody that you dont know.
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Communication Keys Quality
Yeah, I became a successful entrepreneur… Eventually
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Become Entrepreneur Successful
Note to self: It’s a good idea to ask, “What am I not doing?
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Ask Good Ideas Notes Self
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
In life, you don’t have a level of confrontation and the nonsense you run into when you’re a CEO. CEOs aren’t born.
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Levels Nonsense Running
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
Every time you make the hard, correct decision you become a bit more courageous, and every time you make the easy, wrong decision you become a bit more cowardly. If you are CEO, these choices will lead to a courageous or cowardly company.
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Choice Courageous Decision
A CEO needs great intelligence and great courage. And I always found my courage was tested more.
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Entrepreneur Found Needs
When raising money, you want to look through the lens of ‘What happens when things go wrong?’
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Lenses Looks Want
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
There are no silver bullets.
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Bullets Growth No Silver
Until you make the effort to get to know someone or something, you don’t know anything.
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Anything Effort Knows Someone Something
There are no silver bullets.
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Bullets Growth No Silver
I don’t believe in statistics. I believe in calculus.
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Believe Statistics
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

If you have never done the job, how do you know what to want?

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