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

Ben Horowitz

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
If you have never done the job, how do you know what to want?
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Done Jobs never Want
Don’t punk out and don’t quit.
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Inspirational Motivational Quit
Leadership is hard to train on.
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Hard Leadership Train
Planning is valuable, tho the plan is usually useless.
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Planning Useless Valuable
As a company grows, communication becomes its biggest challenge.
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Challenges Communication Company
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
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
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
The trouble with innovation is that truly innovative ideas often look like bad ideas at the time.
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Ideas Innovation Looks
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
I don’t believe in statistics. I believe in calculus.
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Believe Statistics
As a startup CEO, I slept like a baby. I woke up every 2 hours and cried.
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Baby Hours Motivation
There are no silver bullets.
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Bullets Growth No Silver
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
In Silicon Valley, when you’re a private company, the entrepreneur can do no wrong.
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Company Entrepreneur Valleys

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