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Nothing motivates a great employee more than a mission that’s so important that it supersedes everyone’s personal ambition.

Ben Horowitz

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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Lemming Sheep Venture
The trouble with innovation is that truly innovative ideas often look like bad ideas at the time.
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Ideas Innovation Looks
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
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
When I was CEO, and I’d listen to music, a lot of people listen to music and you get inspiration from it. And a lot of things in hip hop are very instructive for being in business. Particularly, hip hop is a lot about business, and so it was very useful for me in any job.
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Express Inspiration Jobs People
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
In a company, hundreds of decisions get made, but objectives and goals are thin.
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Decision Goal Made
You’re better off being The Beatles than The Monkees, as a startup.
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Better Startup
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
As a startup CEO, I slept like a baby. I woke up every 2 hours and cried.
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Baby Hours Motivation
I believe in strength over lack of weakness.
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Believe Strength Weakness
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
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
The key to high-quality communication is trust, and its hard to trust somebody that you dont know.
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Communication Keys Quality
Your employees know each other better than they know you.
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Employee Knows 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

Nothing motivates a great employee more than a mission that’s so important that it supersedes everyone’s personal ambition.

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