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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

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
Business ends up being very dynamic and situational.
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Business Dynamic Ends Situation
In a company, hundreds of decisions get made, but objectives and goals are thin.
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Decision Goal Made
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
When raising money, you want to look through the lens of ‘What happens when things go wrong?’
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Lenses Looks Want
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
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
Yeah, I became a successful entrepreneur… Eventually
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Become Entrepreneur Successful
Relationships built from a business do better than the reverse.
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Better Built Relationship Reverse
I believe in strength over lack of weakness.
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Believe Strength Weakness
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
Your employees know each other better than they know you.
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Employee Knows Management
Over the last ten years, technological advances have dramatically lowered the financial bar for starting a new company, but the courage bar for building a great company remains as high as it has ever been.
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Bar Company Lasts Lower Years
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
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
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

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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