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The key to high-quality communication is trust, and its hard to trust somebody that you dont know.

Ben Horowitz

As a startup CEO, I slept like a baby. I woke up every 2 hours and cried.
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Baby Hours Motivation
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
The only thing that prepares you to run a company is running a company.
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Company Repair Running
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
It’s pretty clear that [customers] know what their budgets are now, and what they want to spend it on.
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Clear Customer Want
When I was CEO, and I’d listen to music, a lot of people listen to music and you get inspiration from it. And a lot of things in hip hop are very instructive for being in business. Particularly, hip hop is a lot about business, and so it was very useful for me in any job.
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Express Inspiration Jobs People
Note to self: It’s a good idea to ask, “What am I not doing?
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Ask Good Ideas Notes Self
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
There is no silver bullet. There are always options and the options have consequences.
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Bullets Consequences Silver
The trouble with innovation is that truly innovative ideas often look like bad ideas at the time.
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Ideas Innovation Looks
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
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
You’re better off being The Beatles than The Monkees, as a startup.
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Better Startup
A lot of it is on the job training, combined with excellent mentorship.
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Excellent Job Lot Mentorship Training
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
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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