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The bigger you get, the harder this gets because the more aggressive the people working for you are.

Ben Horowitz

Planning is valuable, tho the plan is usually useless.
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Planning Useless Valuable
Note to self: It’s a good idea to ask, “What am I not doing?
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Ask Good Ideas Notes Self
Until you make the effort to get to know someone or something, you don’t know anything.
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Anything Effort Knows Someone Something
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
Leadership is hard to train on.
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Hard Leadership Train
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
Volatility and length, that’s the value on an option. 10 years on a startup stock, that’s a big valuable thing.
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Length Management Years
There is no silver bullet. There are always options and the options have consequences.
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Bullets Consequences Silver
The bigger you get, the harder this gets because the more aggressive the people working for you are.
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Bigger Management People
A manager can’t act like a role model. They need to BE a role model.
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Manager Models Needs Role
Early in my career as an engineer, I’d learned that all decisions were objective until the first line of code was written. After that, all decisions were emotional.
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Career Decision Emotional
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
Sometimes an organization doesn’t need a solution; it just needs clarity.
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Clarity Needs Organization
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
Relationships built from a business do better than the reverse.
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Better Built Relationship Reverse
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

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