A manager can’t act like a role model. They need to BE a role model.
BEN HOROWITZOne of the great things about building a tech company is the amazing people that you can hire.
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Planning is valuable, tho the plan is usually useless.
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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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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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Until you make the effort to get to know someone or something, you don’t know anything.
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As a startup CEO, I slept like a baby. I woke up every 2 hours and cried.
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I believe in strength over lack of weakness.
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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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The bigger you get, the harder this gets because the more aggressive the people working for you are.
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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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Business ends up being very dynamic and situational.
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To succeed at selling a losing product, you must develop seriously superior sales techniques. In addition, you have to be massively competitive and incredibly hungry to survive in that environment.
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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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Note to self: It’s a good idea to ask, “What am I not doing?
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In life, everybody faces choices between doing what’s popular, easy, and wrong vs. doing what’s lonely, difficult, and right.
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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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