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What do you get when you cross a herd of sheep with a herd of lemmings? A herd of venture capitalists.

Ben Horowitz

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.
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Jobs Skills Training
These decisions intensify when you run a company, because the consequences get magnified 1,000 fold. As in life, the excuses for CEOs making the wrong choice are always plentiful.
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Choice Consequences Life Magnified Plentiful Wrong
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
Here’s where we are and here’s what I didn’t recognize about us and about you when I made the decision, and now it is what it is.
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About Decision Made Now Recognize
You know what the difference between a vision and a hallucination is? They call it a vision when other people can see it.
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Differences People Vision
A key thing in being a leader is you’ve got to pause yourself.
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Keys Leader Management
In life, you don’t have a level of confrontation and the nonsense you run into when you’re a CEO. CEOs aren’t born.
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Levels Nonsense Running
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
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.
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Kind Moving Quality
Mark [Andressen] was more popular than me at the time … He was like Beyoncé, I was Kelly Rowlings
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Beyonce Mark More Popular Time
Relationships built from a business do better than the reverse.
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Better Built Relationship Reverse
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
A CEO needs great intelligence and great courage. And I always found my courage was tested more.
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Entrepreneur Found Needs
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
Yeah, I became a successful entrepreneur… Eventually
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What do you get when you cross a herd of sheep with a herd of lemmings? A herd of venture capitalists.

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