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In Silicon Valley, when you’re a private company, the entrepreneur can do no wrong.

Ben Horowitz

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
A manager can’t act like a role model. They need to BE a role model.
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Manager Models Needs Role
Leadership is hard to train on.
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Hard Leadership Train
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
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
Business ends up being very dynamic and situational.
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Business Dynamic Ends Situation
These decisions intensify when you run a company, because the consequences get magnified 1,000 fold. As in life, the excuses for CEOs making the wrong choice are always plentiful.
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Choice Consequences Life Magnified Plentiful Wrong
If you have never done the job, how do you know what to want?
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Done Jobs never Want
Sometimes an organization doesn’t need a solution; it just needs clarity.
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Clarity Needs Organization
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
In Silicon Valley, when you’re a private company, the entrepreneur can do no wrong.
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Company Entrepreneur Valleys
There is no silver bullet. There are always options and the options have consequences.
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Bullets Consequences Silver
A key thing in being a leader is you’ve got to pause yourself.
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Keys Leader Management
There are no shortcuts to knowledge, especially knowledge gained from personal experience. Following conventional wisdom and relying on shortcuts can be worse than knowing nothing at all.
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Knowing Knowledge Gain Nothing Shortcut
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
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

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