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The key to high-quality communication is trust, and its hard to trust somebody that you dont know.

Ben Horowitz

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
As a company grows, communication becomes its biggest challenge.
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Challenges Communication Company
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
There are no silver bullets.
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Bullets Growth No Silver
What do you get when you cross a herd of sheep with a herd of lemmings? A herd of venture capitalists.
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Lemming Sheep Venture
Relationships built from a business do better than the reverse.
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Better Built Relationship Reverse
Business ends up being very dynamic and situational.
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Business Dynamic Ends Situation
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
It turns out that is exactly what product strategy is all about—figuring out the right product is the innovator’s job, not the customer’s job.
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Customer Figuring Jobs Product Strategy Turns
The only thing that prepares you to run a company is running a company.
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Company Repair Running
A key thing in being a leader is you’ve got to pause yourself.
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Keys Leader Management
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
A lot of it is on the job training, combined with excellent mentorship.
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Excellent Job Lot Mentorship Training
Leadership is hard to train on.
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Hard Leadership Train
In a company, hundreds of decisions get made, but objectives and goals are thin.
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Decision Goal Made
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

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