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Leadership is hard to train on.

Ben Horowitz

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
There are no silver bullets.
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Bullets Growth No Silver
The trouble with innovation is that truly innovative ideas often look like bad ideas at the time.
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Ideas Innovation Looks
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
You don’t need every investor to believe that you can succeed. You only need one.
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Believe Inspiration Needs
I think theres a lot to be said about just enjoying your work. It can be very contrived when people say their work is for the good of mankind.
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People Said Thinking
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
I believe in strength over lack of weakness.
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Believe Strength Weakness
You’re better off being The Beatles than The Monkees, as a startup.
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Better Startup
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
There are no silver bullets.
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Bullets Growth No Silver
A lot of it is on the job training, combined with excellent mentorship.
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Excellent Job Lot Mentorship Training
A CEO needs great intelligence and great courage. And I always found my courage was tested more.
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Entrepreneur Found Needs
In Silicon Valley, when you’re a private company, the entrepreneur can do no wrong.
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Company Entrepreneur Valleys
It’s hard in daily life. It’s even harder in management because it’s the stress of the moment.
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Daily Life Management Stress
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

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