Startups live at the intersection of existential crisis and everything going perfectly great.
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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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Startups live at the intersection of existential crisis and everything going perfectly great.
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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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Read these 3 books – Crossing the Chasm, Innovators Dilemma and Behind the Cloud.
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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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It’s unfortunate biologically we have to sleep.
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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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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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We didn’t really start the company to go build an enterprise software company.
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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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Startups often win because it’s easier to see what comes next when you don’t have to worry about maintaining what came last.
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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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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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The only way to avoid disruption is to constantly do what you would if you were just starting out.
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