We’re going from a world of customized software to standardized platforms.
AARON LEVIEI don’t use many apps. I use naps.
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You want to find the really crazy but still somewhat reasonable outliers within the customer ecosystem.
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Read these 3 books – Crossing the Chasm, Innovators Dilemma and Behind the Cloud.
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Better to be right about the trend and wrong about the implementation, than the other way around.
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That’s already been tried before only means the first attempt got it wrong.
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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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Startups live at the intersection of existential crisis and everything going perfectly great.
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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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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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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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Execute like there’s no tomorrow, strategize like there will be.
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We didn’t really start the company to go build an enterprise software company.
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The only way to avoid disruption is to constantly do what you would if you were just starting out.
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What happens to the Microsofts, Oracles and IBMs of the world is that when they get big enough, they don’t think they need to bring that same level of focus and energy to the end-user experience.
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I don’t use many apps. I use naps.
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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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