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The person they’re working with, is going to be the person they’ll know more. So if that person leaves, they’re going to go – well, should have I left too? What did they get and how does that compare to my deal.

Ben Horowitz

The important thing about mobile is, everybody has a computer in their pocket. The implications of so many people connected to the Internet all the time from the standpoint of education is incredible.
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Important People Phones
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
Relationships built from a business do better than the reverse.
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Better Built Relationship Reverse
Sometimes an organization doesn’t need a solution; it just needs clarity.
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Clarity Needs Organization
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
There are no silver bullets.
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Bullets Growth No Silver
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
In life, everybody faces choices between doing what’s popular, easy, and wrong vs. doing what’s lonely, difficult, and right.
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Decision Lonely Running
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
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
Yeah, I became a successful entrepreneur… Eventually
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Become Entrepreneur Successful
If you have never done the job, how do you know what to want?
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Done Jobs never Want
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
The trouble with innovation is that truly innovative ideas often look like bad ideas at the time.
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Ideas Innovation Looks
To succeed at selling a losing product, you must develop seriously superior sales techniques. In addition, you have to be massively competitive and incredibly hungry to survive in that environment.
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Losing Succeed Technique

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