As a company grows, communication becomes its biggest challenge.
BEN HOROWITZThe bigger you get, the harder this gets because the more aggressive the people working for you are.
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I believe in strength over lack of weakness.
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You can take somebody’s job, you have to take their job, but you don’t have to take their dignity.
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These decisions intensify when you run a company, because the consequences get magnified 1,000 fold. As in life, the excuses for CEOs making the wrong choice are always plentiful.
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In Silicon Valley, when you’re a private company, the entrepreneur can do no wrong.
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You don’t need every investor to believe that you can succeed. You only need one.
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I think theres a lot to be said about just enjoying your work. It can be very contrived when people say their work is for the good of mankind.
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As companies move to web-based computing they get a lot more servers, which are difficult to manage and control. All kinds of problems can arise – security, quality and worms.
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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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Breakthrough ideas usually come from guys who look like they’re hallucinating
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As a startup CEO, I slept like a baby. I woke up every 2 hours and cried.
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One of the great things about building a tech company is the amazing people that you can hire.
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Relationships built from a business do better than the reverse.
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Planning is valuable, tho the plan is usually useless.
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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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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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A CEO needs great intelligence and great courage. And I always found my courage was tested more.
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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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A lot of it is on the job training, combined with excellent mentorship.
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The one thing with stress is, you’ve got to keep your focus on what you can do, not what happened to you.
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If you have never done the job, how do you know what to want?
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When you’re making a critical decision, you have to understand how it’s going to be interpreted from all points of view. Not just your point of view, not just the person you’re talking to, but the people that aren’t in the room. Everybody else.
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Most large mistakes in organizational design come from putting the individual ambitions of the people at the top of the organization ahead of the communication paths for the people at the bottom of the organization.
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Here’s where we are and here’s what I didn’t recognize about us and about you when I made the decision, and now it is what it is.
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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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Nothing motivates a great employee more than a mission that’s so important that it supersedes everyone’s personal ambition.
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Generally the reason they fail in the job is, you made some mistake in the hiring process in that you didn’t match… them to the needs of your company accurately enough. That’s the #1 reason this fails. And that’s generally a good place to start.
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