The best technology is aimed far enough in the future that it stands out, but close enough to the present that it blends in.
AARON LEVIEThat’s already been tried before only means the first attempt got it wrong.
More Aaron Levie Quotes
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Too little process and you can’t get good work done. Too much process and you can’t get any work done. Most companies never find the middle.
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You’ll learn more in a day talking to customers than a week of brainstorming, a month of watching competitors, or a year of market research.
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Opportunity lives at the intersection of what people need tomorrow and can be just barely built today.
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A lot of being productive personally is determined by how you organize your entire business. You can’t separate those two things.
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Execute like there’s no tomorrow, strategize like there will be.
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Better to be too early and have to try again, than be too late and have to catch up.
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You intentionally start small, because you will not be able to compete with an incumbent… because the incumbent is always going to go for the full solution.
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The benefit to building a startup is that customers don’t have the same kind of friction when they adopt new technology.
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Read these 3 books – Crossing the Chasm, Innovators Dilemma and Behind the Cloud.
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Always look for these changing technology factors- any market that has a significant change in the underlying raw materials …or enabling factors, is an environment that is about to change in a very significant way.
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Tip: Take the stodgiest, oldest, slowest moving industry you can find. And build amazing software for it.
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If you’re waiting for encouragement from others, you’re doing it wrong. By the time people think an idea is good, it’s probably too late.
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Start with something simple and small, then expand over time. If people call it a ‘toy’ you’re definitely onto something.
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My workday begins around 11 A.M., with a cup of black coffee in each hand. If I had more hands, there would be more coffee.
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I don’t use many apps. I use naps.
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My dad is a chemical engineer, and my mom was a teacher. They were pretty serious about education, but I always thought about things a little bit differently.
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The only barrier to entry you can create is to consistently build a great product.
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Listen to your customers, but don’t always build exactly what they’re telling you. This is a really key distinction around building enterprise software.
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Startups live at the intersection of existential crisis and everything going perfectly great.
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Do things that incumbents can’t or won’t do because it’s economically or technically infeasible.
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The product that wins is the one that bridges customers to the future, not the one that requires a giant leap.
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Innovation in tech favors the naive and the stubborn. If you are too rational you won’t tackle problems that others once failed at.
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I think I’m the kind of person who would be very difficult to employ – I’m pretty annoying, but driven.
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When you’re doing something you’re passionate about, stress becomes a featurenot a bug.
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I think people are always able to achieve more than they think they can. While that’s cliche, I don’t know if managers think about that enough. You have to set your sights extremely high.
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The most customer-centric organizations can answer any question by deciding what’s best for the customer, without ever having to ask.
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