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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.

Ben Horowitz

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
Your employees know each other better than they know you.
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Employee Knows Management
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
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
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
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
As a company grows, communication becomes its biggest challenge.
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Challenges Communication Company
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
Planning is valuable, tho the plan is usually useless.
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Planning Useless Valuable
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
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
Over the last ten years, technological advances have dramatically lowered the financial bar for starting a new company, but the courage bar for building a great company remains as high as it has ever been.
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Bar Company Lasts Lower Years
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
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
In Silicon Valley, when you’re a private company, the entrepreneur can do no wrong.
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Company Entrepreneur Valleys

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