Entrepreneurship: 10% coach, 20% player, 30% cheerleader, 40% waterboy.
AARON LEVIEWe’re enamored with the concept that there’s always a price. But sometimes, your goal is to build a great company, not sell it.
More Aaron Levie Quotes
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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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If there could’ve ever been a magical time to build an enterprise software company, now is absolutely that time.
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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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Focus too much on the near-term and you won’t get tomorrow’s customers, focus too much on the long-term and you won’t get today’s.
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In the enterprise you want to start intentionally small.
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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 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 chance of failure is almost always better than the guarantee of never knowing.
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If people don’t think the odds are against you, you’re doing it wrong.
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Read these 3 books – Crossing the Chasm, Innovators Dilemma and Behind the Cloud.
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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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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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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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That’s already been tried before only means the first attempt got it wrong.
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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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