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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One of the great things about building a tech company is the amazing people that you can hire.
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It’s hard in daily life. It’s even harder in management because it’s the stress of the moment.
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Mark [Andressen] was more popular than me at the time … He was like Beyoncé, I was Kelly Rowlings
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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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As a company grows, communication becomes its biggest challenge.
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In my experience as CEO, I found that the most important decisions tested my courage far more than my intelligence.
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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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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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Yeah, I became a successful entrepreneur… Eventually
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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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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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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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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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Leadership is hard to train on.
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It’s quite possible for an executive to hit her goal for the quarter by ignoring the future.
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There are no silver bullets.
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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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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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A manager can’t act like a role model. They need to BE a role model.
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There are no shortcuts to knowledge, especially knowledge gained from personal experience. Following conventional wisdom and relying on shortcuts can be worse than knowing nothing at all.
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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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Note to self: It’s a good idea to ask, “What am I not doing?
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If you have never done the job, how do you know what to want?
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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 believe in strength over lack of weakness.
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In a company, hundreds of decisions get made, but objectives and goals are thin.
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