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A lot of it is on the job training, combined with excellent mentorship.

Ben Horowitz

Early in my career as an engineer, I’d learned that all decisions were objective until the first line of code was written. After that, all decisions were emotional.
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Career Decision Emotional
In a company, hundreds of decisions get made, but objectives and goals are thin.
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Decision Goal Made
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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Kind Moving Quality
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
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
Note to self: It’s a good idea to ask, “What am I not doing?
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Ask Good Ideas Notes Self
Sometimes an organization doesn’t need a solution; it just needs clarity.
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Clarity Needs Organization
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
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
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
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
You don’t need every investor to believe that you can succeed. You only need one.
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Believe Inspiration Needs
The only thing that prepares you to run a company is running a company.
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Company Repair Running
To succeed at selling a losing product, you must develop seriously superior sales techniques. In addition, you have to be massively competitive and incredibly hungry to survive in that environment.
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Losing Succeed Technique
If you have never done the job, how do you know what to want?
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Done Jobs never Want

A lot of it is on the job training, combined with excellent mentorship.

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