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The trouble with innovation is that truly innovative ideas often look like bad ideas at the time.

Ben Horowitz

You don’t need every investor to believe that you can succeed. You only need one.
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Believe Inspiration Needs
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
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
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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About Decision Made Now Recognize
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
Yeah, I became a successful entrepreneur… Eventually
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Become Entrepreneur Successful
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
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
Over the last ten years, technological advances have dramatically lowered the financial bar for starting a new company, but the courage bar for building a great company remains as high as it has ever been.
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Bar Company Lasts Lower Years
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
In Silicon Valley, when you’re a private company, the entrepreneur can do no wrong.
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Company Entrepreneur Valleys
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
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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Focus Management Stress
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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Choice Consequences Life Magnified Plentiful Wrong
You’re better off being The Beatles than The Monkees, as a startup.
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