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You can take somebody’s job, you have to take their job, but you don’t have to take their dignity.

Ben Horowitz

In Silicon Valley, when you’re a private company, the entrepreneur can do no wrong.
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Company Entrepreneur Valleys
A lot of it is on the job training, combined with excellent mentorship.
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Excellent Job Lot Mentorship Training
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
In a company, hundreds of decisions get made, but objectives and goals are thin.
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Decision Goal Made
Note to self: It’s a good idea to ask, “What am I not doing?
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Ask Good Ideas Notes Self
Relationships built from a business do better than the reverse.
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Better Built Relationship Reverse
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
There is no silver bullet. There are always options and the options have consequences.
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Bullets Consequences Silver
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
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
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
For example, the vast majority of security break-ins occur as a result of problems with known fixes. With an automated system, you can keep up to date.
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Date Example Majority Problem Result
Don’t punk out and don’t quit.
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Inspirational Motivational Quit
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
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
These decisions intensify when you run a company, because the consequences get magnified 1,000 fold. As in life, the excuses for CEOs making the wrong choice are always plentiful.
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Choice Consequences Life Magnified Plentiful Wrong

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