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Groupon looked like a very high valuation, but any investment in a great company at any stage is almost always a good investment.

Ben Horowitz

Sometimes an organization doesn’t need a solution; it just needs clarity.
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Clarity Needs Organization
In a company, hundreds of decisions get made, but objectives and goals are thin.
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Decision Goal Made
Relationships built from a business do better than the reverse.
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Better Built Relationship Reverse
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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Company Deal Leaves Management
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
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
In my experience as CEO, I found that the most important decisions tested my courage far more than my intelligence.
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Decision Found Important
It’s quite possible for an executive to hit her goal for the quarter by ignoring the future.
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Executive Goal Quarters
As a startup CEO, I slept like a baby. I woke up every 2 hours and cried.
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Baby Hours Motivation
The only thing that prepares you to run a company is running a company.
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Company Repair 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
If you have never done the job, how do you know what to want?
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Done Jobs never Want
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
I don’t believe in statistics. I believe in calculus.
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Believe Statistics
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
There are no silver bullets.
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Bullets Growth No Silver

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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