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Nothing motivates a great employee more than a mission that’s so important that it supersedes everyone’s personal ambition.

Ben Horowitz

There is no silver bullet. There are always options and the options have consequences.
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Bullets Consequences Silver
A lot of it is on the job training, combined with excellent mentorship.
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Excellent Job Lot Mentorship Training
Relationships built from a business do better than the reverse.
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Better Built Relationship Reverse
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
The only thing that prepares you to run a company is running a company.
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Company Repair Running
The trouble with innovation is that truly innovative ideas often look like bad ideas at the time.
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Ideas Innovation Looks
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
I emphasize to C.E.O.s, you have to have a story in the minds of the employees. It’s hard to memorize objectives, but it’s easy to remember a story.
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Mind Remember Stories
You’re better off being The Beatles than The Monkees, as a startup.
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Better Startup
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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Ambition Communication Mistakes
Planning is valuable, tho the plan is usually useless.
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Planning Useless Valuable
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
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 bigger you get, the harder this gets because the more aggressive the people working for you are.
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Bigger Management People
When raising money, you want to look through the lens of ‘What happens when things go wrong?’
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Lenses Looks Want
It’s quite possible for an executive to hit her goal for the quarter by ignoring the future.
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Executive Goal Quarters

Nothing motivates a great employee more than a mission that’s so important that it supersedes everyone’s personal ambition.

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