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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.

Ben Horowitz

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
I don’t believe in statistics. I believe in calculus.
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Believe Statistics
Planning is valuable, tho the plan is usually useless.
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Planning Useless Valuable
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
There are no silver bullets.
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Bullets Growth No Silver
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
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
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
There are no silver bullets.
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Bullets Growth No Silver
For example, the vast majority of security break-ins occur as a result of problems with known fixes. With an automated system, you can keep up to date.
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Date Example Majority Problem Result
You don’t need every investor to believe that you can succeed. You only need one.
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Believe Inspiration Needs
Breakthrough ideas usually come from guys who look like they’re hallucinating
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Guy Hallucinating Ideas Looks
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
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
Relationships built from a business do better than the reverse.
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Better Built Relationship Reverse
A lot of it is on the job training, combined with excellent mentorship.
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Excellent Job Lot Mentorship Training

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