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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.

Ben Horowitz

You can take somebody’s job, you have to take their job, but you don’t have to take their dignity.
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Dignity Jobs Management
You’re better off being The Beatles than The Monkees, as a startup.
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Better Startup
As a company grows, communication becomes its biggest challenge.
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Challenges Communication Company
Most large mistakes in organizational design come from putting the individual ambitions of the people at the top of the organization ahead of the communication paths for the people at the bottom of the organization.
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Ambition Communication Mistakes
I emphasize to C.E.O.s, you have to have a story in the minds of the employees. It’s hard to memorize objectives, but it’s easy to remember a story.
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Mind Remember Stories
A lot of it is on the job training, combined with excellent mentorship.
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Excellent Job Lot Mentorship Training
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
Business ends up being very dynamic and situational.
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Business Dynamic Ends Situation
Your employees know each other better than they know you.
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Employee Knows Management
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
If you have never done the job, how do you know what to want?
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Done Jobs never Want
Yeah, I became a successful entrepreneur… Eventually
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Become Entrepreneur Successful
I believe in strength over lack of weakness.
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Believe Strength Weakness
The trouble with innovation is that truly innovative ideas often look like bad ideas at the time.
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Ideas Innovation Looks
Breakthrough ideas usually come from guys who look like they’re hallucinating
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Guy Hallucinating Ideas Looks
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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