Note to self: It’s a good idea to ask, “What am I not doing?
BEN HOROWITZIf you have never done the job, how do you know what to want?
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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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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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The only thing that prepares you to run a company is running a company.
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How do you make your company a good place to work in general? That’s a really really really large and complex set of skills.
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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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It’s hard in daily life. It’s even harder in management because it’s the stress of the moment.
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A CEO needs great intelligence and great courage. And I always found my courage was tested more.
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If you have never done the job, how do you know what to want?
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You don’t need every investor to believe that you can succeed. You only need one.
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Wartime CEO is too busy fighting the enemy to read management books written by consultants who have never managed a fruit stand.
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Leadership is hard to train on.
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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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It’s pretty clear that [customers] know what their budgets are now, and what they want to spend it on.
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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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Yeah, I became a successful entrepreneur… Eventually
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