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

Ben Horowitz

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
You’re better off being The Beatles than The Monkees, as a startup.
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Better Startup
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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Decision Lonely Running
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
In a company, hundreds of decisions get made, but objectives and goals are thin.
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Decision Goal Made
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
Business ends up being very dynamic and situational.
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Business Dynamic Ends Situation
The trouble with innovation is that truly innovative ideas often look like bad ideas at the time.
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Ideas Innovation Looks
The person they’re working with, is going to be the person they’ll know more. So if that person leaves, they’re going to go – well, should have I left too? What did they get and how does that compare to my deal.
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Company Deal Leaves Management
A manager can’t act like a role model. They need to BE a role model.
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Manager Models Needs Role
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
Leadership is hard to train on.
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Hard Leadership Train
Yeah, I became a successful entrepreneur… Eventually
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Become Entrepreneur Successful
A lot of it is on the job training, combined with excellent mentorship.
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Excellent Job Lot Mentorship Training
A key thing in being a leader is you’ve got to pause yourself.
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Keys Leader Management
Planning is valuable, tho the plan is usually useless.
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Planning Useless Valuable

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