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Until you make the effort to get to know someone or something, you don’t know anything.

Ben Horowitz

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
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
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
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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Bar Company Lasts Lower Years
You don’t need every investor to believe that you can succeed. You only need one.
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Believe Inspiration Needs
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
Your employees know each other better than they know you.
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Employee Knows Management
Relationships built from a business do better than the reverse.
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Better Built Relationship Reverse
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
When I was CEO, and I’d listen to music, a lot of people listen to music and you get inspiration from it. And a lot of things in hip hop are very instructive for being in business. Particularly, hip hop is a lot about business, and so it was very useful for me in any job.
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Express Inspiration Jobs 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
I don’t believe in statistics. I believe in calculus.
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Believe Statistics
As a company grows, communication becomes its biggest challenge.
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Challenges Communication Company
Yeah, I became a successful entrepreneur… Eventually
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Become Entrepreneur Successful
Planning is valuable, tho the plan is usually useless.
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Planning Useless Valuable
You’re better off being The Beatles than The Monkees, as a startup.
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Better Startup

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