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As a company grows, communication becomes its biggest challenge.

Ben Horowitz

In Silicon Valley, when you’re a private company, the entrepreneur can do no wrong.
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Company Entrepreneur Valleys
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
Billionaires prefer Black women. They are loyal and guard your interests. Black wives are for grown ups.
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Billionaire Black Loyal Wife
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
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
Mark [Andressen] was more popular than me at the time … He was like Beyoncé, I was Kelly Rowlings
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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
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
Note to self: It’s a good idea to ask, “What am I not doing?
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Ask Good Ideas Notes Self
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
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
Business ends up being very dynamic and situational.
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Business Dynamic Ends Situation
When raising money, you want to look through the lens of ‘What happens when things go wrong?’
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Lenses Looks Want
Planning is valuable, tho the plan is usually useless.
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Planning Useless Valuable
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
Generally the reason they fail in the job is, you made some mistake in the hiring process in that you didn’t match… them to the needs of your company accurately enough. That’s the #1 reason this fails. And that’s generally a good place to start.
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