In the enterprise you want to start intentionally small.
AARON LEVIEThe only barrier to entry you can create is to consistently build a great product.
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Entrepreneurship: 10% coach, 20% player, 30% cheerleader, 40% waterboy.
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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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You want to find the really crazy but still somewhat reasonable outliers within the customer ecosystem.
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If people don’t think the odds are against you, you’re doing it wrong.
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All we’re really doing is repeating technologies that were tried 10, 20, 30 years ago… it’s just that it was too expensive, too unusable, and we didn’t have the enabling technologies to make it possible.
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Why we do what we do: that moment when you get to see the future on your computer screen before the rest of the world.
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Jeff Bezos is opening a retail store and owns a newspaper. Turns out everything we thought about the Internet is wrong.
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The best technology is aimed far enough in the future that it stands out, but close enough to the present that it blends in.
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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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It’s unfortunate biologically we have to sleep.
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Uber is a $3.5 billion lesson in building for how the world *should* work instead of optimizing for how the world *does* work
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Your product should sell itself, but that does not mean you don’t need salespeople.
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Sometimes things are the way they are and can’t be changed, other times it’s because no one ever tried. Your job is to find the latter.
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You can look at the cost structure of an incumbent company and discover: where are they not going to be able to drop their prices… because that business model is fundamental to the existence of the company.
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