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A manager can’t act like a role model. They need to BE a role model.

Ben Horowitz

It’s pretty clear that [customers] know what their budgets are now, and what they want to spend it on.
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Clear Customer Want
Note to self: It’s a good idea to ask, “What am I not doing?
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Ask Good Ideas Notes Self
If you have never done the job, how do you know what to want?
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Done Jobs never Want
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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Jobs Skills Training
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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Important People Phones
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
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
The one thing with stress is, you’ve got to keep your focus on what you can do, not what happened to you.
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Focus Management Stress
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
The trouble with innovation is that truly innovative ideas often look like bad ideas at the time.
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Ideas Innovation Looks
One of the great things about building a tech company is the amazing people that you can hire.
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Building Great People Things
Don’t punk out and don’t quit.
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Inspirational Motivational Quit
You know what the difference between a vision and a hallucination is? They call it a vision when other people can see it.
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Differences People Vision
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
Sometimes an organization doesn’t need a solution; it just needs clarity.
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Clarity Needs Organization
Business ends up being very dynamic and situational.
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Business Dynamic Ends Situation

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