Yeah, I became a successful entrepreneur… Eventually
BEN HOROWITZPlanning is valuable, tho the plan is usually useless.
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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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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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You’re better off being The Beatles than The Monkees, as a startup.
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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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It’s hard in daily life. It’s even harder in management because it’s the stress of the moment.
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Every time you make the hard, correct decision you become a bit more courageous, and every time you make the easy, wrong decision you become a bit more cowardly. If you are CEO, these choices will lead to a courageous or cowardly company.
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Here’s Kanye, the great musical genius of his generation in hip hop, but, like, society really can’t even deal with him because he’s always saying something that people go, ‘Oh, I can’t believe Kanye said that. I can’t believe he did that.’
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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.
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Planning is valuable, tho the plan is usually useless.
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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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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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Relationships built from a business do better than the reverse.
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It’s pretty clear that [customers] know what their budgets are now, and what they want to spend it on.
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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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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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