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Note to self: It’s a good idea to ask, “What am I not doing?

Ben Horowitz

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
Business ends up being very dynamic and situational.
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Business Dynamic Ends Situation
When you’re making a critical decision, you have to understand how it’s going to be interpreted from all points of view. Not just your point of view, not just the person you’re talking to, but the people that aren’t in the room. Everybody else.
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Critical Decisions Talking Views
In Silicon Valley, when you’re a private company, the entrepreneur can do no wrong.
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Company Entrepreneur Valleys
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
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
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
Sometimes an organization doesn’t need a solution; it just needs clarity.
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Clarity Needs Organization
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
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
As a company grows, communication becomes its biggest challenge.
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Challenges Communication Company
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
There are no silver bullets.
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Bullets Growth No Silver
A key thing in being a leader is you’ve got to pause yourself.
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Keys Leader Management
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

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