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The right answer on raises is you have to be formal. You have to be formal to save your own culture.

Ben Horowitz

Business ends up being very dynamic and situational.
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Business Dynamic Ends Situation
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
Leadership is hard to train on.
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Hard Leadership Train
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
Yeah, I became a successful entrepreneur… Eventually
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Become Entrepreneur Successful
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
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
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
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
If you have never done the job, how do you know what to want?
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Done Jobs never Want
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 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
Planning is valuable, tho the plan is usually useless.
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Planning Useless Valuable
A lot of it is on the job training, combined with excellent mentorship.
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Excellent Job Lot Mentorship Training
There are no silver bullets.
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Bullets Growth No Silver

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