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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

Planning is valuable, tho the plan is usually useless.
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Planning Useless Valuable
Breakthrough ideas usually come from guys who look like they’re hallucinating
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Guy Hallucinating Ideas Looks
You don’t need every investor to believe that you can succeed. You only need one.
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Believe Inspiration Needs
If you have never done the job, how do you know what to want?
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Done Jobs never Want
The right answer on raises is you have to be formal. You have to be formal to save your own culture.
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Answer Culture Management
When raising money, you want to look through the lens of ‘What happens when things go wrong?’
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Lenses Looks Want
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
The only thing that prepares you to run a company is running a company.
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Company Repair Running
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
Every time you make the hard, correct decision you become a bit more courageous, and every time you make the easy, wrong decision you become a bit more cowardly. If you are CEO, these choices will lead to a courageous or cowardly company.
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Choice Courageous Decision
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
I think theres a lot to be said about just enjoying your work. It can be very contrived when people say their work is for the good of mankind.
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People Said Thinking
Note to self: It’s a good idea to ask, “What am I not doing?
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Ask Good Ideas Notes Self
Relationships built from a business do better than the reverse.
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Better Built Relationship Reverse
Sometimes an organization doesn’t need a solution; it just needs clarity.
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Clarity Needs Organization
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

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