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Don’t punk out and don’t quit.

Ben Horowitz

Yeah, I became a successful entrepreneur… Eventually
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Become Entrepreneur Successful
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
The bigger you get, the harder this gets because the more aggressive the people working for you are.
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Bigger Management People
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
Your employees know each other better than they know you.
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Employee Knows Management
Relationships built from a business do better than the reverse.
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Better Built Relationship Reverse
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
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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Ambition Communication Mistakes
Until you make the effort to get to know someone or something, you don’t know anything.
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Anything Effort Knows Someone Something
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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Great Company Investment Stage
Planning is valuable, tho the plan is usually useless.
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Planning Useless Valuable
Don’t punk out and don’t quit.
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Inspirational Motivational Quit
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
In a company, hundreds of decisions get made, but objectives and goals are thin.
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Decision Goal Made
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

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