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Sometimes an organization doesn’t need a solution; it just needs clarity.

Ben Horowitz

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
In my experience as CEO, I found that the most important decisions tested my courage far more than my intelligence.
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Decision Found Important
There are no silver bullets.
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Bullets Growth No Silver
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
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
I believe in strength over lack of weakness.
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Believe Strength Weakness
In Silicon Valley, when you’re a private company, the entrepreneur can do no wrong.
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Company Entrepreneur Valleys
As a company grows, communication becomes its biggest challenge.
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Challenges Communication Company
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
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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Lemming Sheep Venture
As a startup CEO, I slept like a baby. I woke up every 2 hours and cried.
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Baby Hours Motivation
A key thing in being a leader is you’ve got to pause yourself.
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Keys Leader Management
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
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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Losing Succeed Technique
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

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