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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.

Ben Horowitz

Until you make the effort to get to know someone or something, you don’t know anything.
BEN HOROWITZ

Anything Effort Knows Someone Something
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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Book Enemy Fighting
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
Leadership is hard to train on.
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Hard Leadership Train
When raising money, you want to look through the lens of ‘What happens when things go wrong?’
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Lenses Looks Want
I don’t believe in statistics. I believe in calculus.
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Believe Statistics
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
There are no shortcuts to knowledge, especially knowledge gained from personal experience. Following conventional wisdom and relying on shortcuts can be worse than knowing nothing at all.
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Knowing Knowledge Gain Nothing Shortcut
There are no silver bullets.
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Bullets Growth No Silver
As a startup CEO, I slept like a baby. I woke up every 2 hours and cried.
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Baby Hours Motivation
A manager can’t act like a role model. They need to BE a role model.
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Manager Models Needs Role
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
You’re better off being The Beatles than The Monkees, as a startup.
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Better Startup
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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Accurate Decision Good Jobs Mistake Place Reason
A lot of it is on the job training, combined with excellent mentorship.
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Excellent Job Lot Mentorship Training
A CEO needs great intelligence and great courage. And I always found my courage was tested more.
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Entrepreneur Found Needs

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