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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.

Ben Horowitz

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
Sometimes an organization doesn’t need a solution; it just needs clarity.
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Clarity Needs Organization
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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Choice Courageous Decision
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
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
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
Hire sales people who are really smart problem solvers, but lack courage, hunger and competitiveness, and your company will go out of business.
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People Problem Smart
Note to self: It’s a good idea to ask, “What am I not doing?
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Ask Good Ideas Notes Self
You know what the difference between a vision and a hallucination is? They call it a vision when other people can see it.
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Differences People Vision
In a company, hundreds of decisions get made, but objectives and goals are thin.
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Decision Goal Made
Don’t punk out and don’t quit.
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Inspirational Motivational Quit
There are no silver bullets.
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Bullets Growth No Silver
Yeah, I became a successful entrepreneur… Eventually
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Become Entrepreneur Successful
The one thing with stress is, you’ve got to keep your focus on what you can do, not what happened to you.
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Focus Management Stress
I emphasize to C.E.O.s, you have to have a story in the minds of the employees. It’s hard to memorize objectives, but it’s easy to remember a story.
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Mind Remember Stories

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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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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