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It’s quite possible for an executive to hit her goal for the quarter by ignoring the future.

Ben Horowitz

As a company grows, communication becomes its biggest challenge.
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Challenges Communication Company
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
Early in my career as an engineer, I’d learned that all decisions were objective until the first line of code was written. After that, all decisions were emotional.
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Career Decision Emotional
As a startup CEO, I slept like a baby. I woke up every 2 hours and cried.
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Baby Hours Motivation
Most large mistakes in organizational design come from putting the individual ambitions of the people at the top of the organization ahead of the communication paths for the people at the bottom of the organization.
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Ambition Communication Mistakes
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
In Silicon Valley, when you’re a private company, the entrepreneur can do no wrong.
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Company Entrepreneur Valleys
You don’t need every investor to believe that you can succeed. You only need one.
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Believe Inspiration Needs
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 person they’re working with, is going to be the person they’ll know more. So if that person leaves, they’re going to go – well, should have I left too? What did they get and how does that compare to my deal.
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Company Deal Leaves Management
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
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
There are no silver bullets.
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Bullets Growth No Silver
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
There are no silver bullets.
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Bullets Growth No Silver

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