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If you have never done the job, how do you know what to want?

Ben Horowitz

Note to self: It’s a good idea to ask, “What am I not doing?
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Ask Good Ideas Notes Self
Relationships built from a business do better than the reverse.
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Better Built Relationship Reverse
Volatility and length, that’s the value on an option. 10 years on a startup stock, that’s a big valuable thing.
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Length Management Years
As a company grows, communication becomes its biggest challenge.
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Challenges Communication Company
As a startup CEO, I slept like a baby. I woke up every 2 hours and cried.
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Baby Hours Motivation
It’s hard in daily life. It’s even harder in management because it’s the stress of the moment.
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Daily Life Management Stress
Nothing motivates a great employee more than a mission that’s so important that it supersedes everyone’s personal ambition.
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Ambition Important Mission
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
I believe in strength over lack of weakness.
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Believe Strength Weakness
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
Breakthrough ideas usually come from guys who look like they’re hallucinating
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Guy Hallucinating Ideas Looks
I don’t believe in statistics. I believe in calculus.
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Believe Statistics
A lot of it is on the job training, combined with excellent mentorship.
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Excellent Job Lot Mentorship Training
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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Dignity Jobs Management
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
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

If you have never done the job, how do you know what to want?

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