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Note to self: It’s a good idea to ask, “What am I not doing?

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
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
Volatility and length, that’s the value on an option. 10 years on a startup stock, that’s a big valuable thing.
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Length Management Years
Leadership is hard to train on.
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Hard Leadership Train
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
Billionaires prefer Black women. They are loyal and guard your interests. Black wives are for grown ups.
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Billionaire Black Loyal Wife
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
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
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
You know what the difference between a vision and a hallucination is? They call it a vision when other people can see it.
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Differences People Vision
I think theres a lot to be said about just enjoying your work. It can be very contrived when people say their work is for the good of mankind.
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People Said Thinking
You’re better off being The Beatles than The Monkees, as a startup.
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Better Startup
The only thing that prepares you to run a company is running a company.
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Company Repair Running
For example, the vast majority of security break-ins occur as a result of problems with known fixes. With an automated system, you can keep up to date.
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Date Example Majority Problem Result
A lot of it is on the job training, combined with excellent mentorship.
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Excellent Job Lot Mentorship Training
Don’t punk out and don’t quit.
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Inspirational Motivational Quit

Note to self: It’s a good idea to ask, “What am I not doing?

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