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As a startup CEO, I slept like a baby. I woke up every 2 hours and cried.

Ben Horowitz

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
Until you make the effort to get to know someone or something, you don’t know anything.
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Anything Effort Knows Someone Something
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
Breakthrough ideas usually come from guys who look like they’re hallucinating
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Guy Hallucinating Ideas Looks
Your employees know each other better than they know you.
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Employee Knows Management
Volatility and length, that’s the value on an option. 10 years on a startup stock, that’s a big valuable thing.
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Length Management Years
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
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 key to high-quality communication is trust, and its hard to trust somebody that you dont know.
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Communication Keys Quality
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
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
I believe in strength over lack of weakness.
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Believe Strength Weakness
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
You’re better off being The Beatles than The Monkees, as a startup.
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Better Startup
A lot of it is on the job training, combined with excellent mentorship.
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Excellent Job Lot Mentorship Training

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