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Wartime CEO is too busy fighting the enemy to read management books written by consultants who have never managed a fruit stand.

Ben Horowitz

Relationships built from a business do better than the reverse.
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Better Built Relationship Reverse
Yeah, I became a successful entrepreneur… Eventually
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Become Entrepreneur Successful
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
When raising money, you want to look through the lens of ‘What happens when things go wrong?’
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Lenses Looks Want
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
As a startup CEO, I slept like a baby. I woke up every 2 hours and cried.
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Baby Hours Motivation
Sometimes an organization doesn’t need a solution; it just needs clarity.
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Clarity Needs Organization
A lot of it is on the job training, combined with excellent mentorship.
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Excellent Job Lot Mentorship Training
In life, everybody faces choices between doing what’s popular, easy, and wrong vs. doing what’s lonely, difficult, and right.
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Decision Lonely Running
As a company grows, communication becomes its biggest challenge.
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Challenges Communication Company
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
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 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
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
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
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

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