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I’m certainly not into money and prestige. For me there is simply nothing more exciting than people involved in the creation of great products. That is what drives me.

Aaron Levie

Opportunity lives at the intersection of what people need tomorrow and can be just barely built today.
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Bare Build Need Opportunity People Tomorrow
Your product should sell itself, but that does not mean you don’t need salespeople.
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Doe Mean Need People Product Sales
Read these 3 books – Crossing the Chasm, Innovators Dilemma and Behind the Cloud.
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Book Building Chasm Cloud Clouds Innovator
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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Change Market Material Raw Significant Technology
Startups live at the intersection of existential crisis and everything going perfectly great.
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Crisis Existential Great Perfectly Startup
If there could’ve ever been a magical time to build an enterprise software company, now is absolutely that time.
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Building Company Enterprise Magical Software Time
There’s a lot of pride that business owners have. It’s actually really critical that pride and ownership extends to everyone in the organization. I think of everyone is in the same boat in driving the company forward.
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Extend Organization Ownership Pride Thinking
Tip: Take the stodgiest, oldest, slowest moving industry you can find. And build amazing software for it.
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Amazing Industry Moving Slow Software Stodgiest
The 10% between 90% done to 100% done takes most of the time, causes most of the stress, but is all of the value.
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Cause Done Percentage Stress Time
In a user lead model, users are bringing in their own technology… and you can build software then, around the user.
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Bringing Building Lead Model Software Technology
If you don’t go to every level of your company, you distance yourself from the marketplace and from your people.
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Company Distance Level Marketplace People
I don’t use many apps. I use naps.
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App Many Nap Use
We’re enamored with the concept that there’s always a price. But sometimes, your goal is to build a great company, not sell it.
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Build Company Concept Enamore Goal Great Sometimes
We didn’t really start the company to go build an enterprise software company.
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Building Company Enterprise Software Start
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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Energy Focus IBM Microsoft Oracle Thinking World
Companies have never won. You’re always either fighting for survival, or fighting for relevance.
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Entrepreneur Fighting Relevance Survival

I’m certainly not into money and prestige. For me there is simply nothing more exciting than people involved in the creation of great products. That is what drives me.

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I’m certainly not into money and prestige. For me there is simply nothing more exciting than people involved in the creation of great products. That is what drives me.

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