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Planning is valuable, tho the plan is usually useless.

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
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
Sometimes an organization doesn’t need a solution; it just needs clarity.
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Clarity Needs Organization
What do you get when you cross a herd of sheep with a herd of lemmings? A herd of venture capitalists.
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Lemming Sheep Venture
There are no silver bullets.
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Bullets Growth No Silver
A key thing in being a leader is you’ve got to pause yourself.
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Keys Leader Management
You don’t need every investor to believe that you can succeed. You only need one.
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Believe Inspiration Needs
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
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
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
You’re better off being The Beatles than The Monkees, as a startup.
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Better Startup
Planning is valuable, tho the plan is usually useless.
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Planning Useless Valuable
The important thing about mobile is, everybody has a computer in their pocket. The implications of so many people connected to the Internet all the time from the standpoint of education is incredible.
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Important People Phones
As a company grows, communication becomes its biggest challenge.
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Challenges Communication Company
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
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

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