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

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
In a company, hundreds of decisions get made, but objectives and goals are thin.
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Decision Goal Made
As a company grows, communication becomes its biggest challenge.
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Challenges Communication Company
I don’t believe in statistics. I believe in calculus.
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Believe Statistics
Yeah, I became a successful entrepreneur… Eventually
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Become Entrepreneur Successful
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
I believe in strength over lack of weakness.
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Believe Strength Weakness
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
If you have never done the job, how do you know what to want?
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Done Jobs never Want
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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Dignity Jobs Management
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
One of the great things about building a tech company is the amazing people that you can hire.
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Building Great People Things
Nothing motivates a great employee more than a mission that’s so important that it supersedes everyone’s personal ambition.
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Ambition Important Mission
Hire sales people who are really smart problem solvers, but lack courage, hunger and competitiveness, and your company will go out of business.
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People Problem Smart
Relationships built from a business do better than the reverse.
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Better Built Relationship Reverse
You’re better off being The Beatles than The Monkees, as a startup.
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Better Startup

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

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