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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

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
A lot of it is on the job training, combined with excellent mentorship.
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Excellent Job Lot Mentorship Training
I don’t believe in statistics. I believe in calculus.
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Believe Statistics
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
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
A CEO needs great intelligence and great courage. And I always found my courage was tested more.
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Entrepreneur Found Needs
As a startup CEO, I slept like a baby. I woke up every 2 hours and cried.
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Baby Hours Motivation
Nothing motivates a great employee more than a mission that’s so important that it supersedes everyone’s personal ambition.
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Ambition Important Mission
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
A manager can’t act like a role model. They need to BE a role model.
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Manager Models Needs Role
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
If you have never done the job, how do you know what to want?
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Done Jobs never Want
In a company, hundreds of decisions get made, but objectives and goals are thin.
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Decision Goal Made
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.
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Knowing Knowledge Gain Nothing Shortcut
Wartime CEO is too busy fighting the enemy to read management books written by consultants who have never managed a fruit stand.
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Book Enemy Fighting
The bigger you get, the harder this gets because the more aggressive the people working for you are.
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Bigger Management People

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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