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There is no silver bullet. There are always options and the options have consequences.

Ben Horowitz

It’s pretty clear that [customers] know what their budgets are now, and what they want to spend it on.
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Clear Customer Want
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
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
It turns out that is exactly what product strategy is all about—figuring out the right product is the innovator’s job, not the customer’s job.
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Customer Figuring Jobs Product Strategy Turns
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
One of the great things about building a tech company is the amazing people that you can hire.
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Building Great People Things
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
Your employees know each other better than they know you.
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Employee Knows Management
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
There are no silver bullets.
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Bullets Growth No Silver
In my experience as CEO, I found that the most important decisions tested my courage far more than my intelligence.
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Decision Found Important
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
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
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
In a company, hundreds of decisions get made, but objectives and goals are thin.
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Decision Goal Made

There is no silver bullet. There are always options and the options have consequences.

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