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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

Generally the reason they fail in the job is, you made some mistake in the hiring process in that you didn’t match… them to the needs of your company accurately enough. That’s the #1 reason this fails. And that’s generally a good place to start.
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Accurate Decision Good Jobs Mistake Place Reason
Note to self: It’s a good idea to ask, “What am I not doing?
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Ask Good Ideas Notes Self
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
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
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
You can take somebody’s job, you have to take their job, but you don’t have to take their dignity.
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Dignity Jobs Management
You don’t need every investor to believe that you can succeed. You only need one.
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Believe Inspiration Needs
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
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
There are no silver bullets.
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Bullets Growth No Silver
Wartime CEO is too busy fighting the enemy to read management books written by consultants who have never managed a fruit stand.
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Book Enemy Fighting
As a startup CEO, I slept like a baby. I woke up every 2 hours and cried.
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Baby Hours Motivation
A key thing in being a leader is you’ve got to pause yourself.
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Keys Leader Management
Mark [Andressen] was more popular than me at the time … He was like Beyoncé, I was Kelly Rowlings
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Beyonce Mark More Popular Time
Relationships built from a business do better than the reverse.
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Better Built Relationship Reverse
Leadership is hard to train on.
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Hard Leadership Train

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