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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.

Ben Horowitz

Don’t punk out and don’t quit.
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Inspirational Motivational Quit
You don’t need every investor to believe that you can succeed. You only need one.
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Believe Inspiration Needs
The only thing that prepares you to run a company is running a company.
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Company Repair Running
As a startup CEO, I slept like a baby. I woke up every 2 hours and cried.
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Baby Hours Motivation
There are no silver bullets.
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Bullets Growth No Silver
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
Breakthrough ideas usually come from guys who look like they’re hallucinating
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Guy Hallucinating Ideas Looks
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
Your employees know each other better than they know you.
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Employee Knows Management
There is no silver bullet. There are always options and the options have consequences.
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Bullets Consequences Silver
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
As a company grows, communication becomes its biggest challenge.
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Challenges Communication Company
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
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
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 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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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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