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Too little process and you can’t get good work done. Too much process and you can’t get any work done. Most companies never find the middle.

Aaron Levie

Modularize, don’t customize. Build a platform as opposed to building all of the custom technology and custom vertical experiences.
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Building Custom Modularize Oppose Platform Technology
When you’re doing something you’re passionate about, stress becomes a featurenot a bug.
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Bug Feature Passionate Something Stress
I don’t use many apps. I use naps.
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App Many Nap Use
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
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
In the enterprise you want to start intentionally small.
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Building Enterprise Intention Small Want
Everything about the enterprise, and then by definition the software the enterprise uses has changed – just in the last 5 years.
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Change Definition Enterprise Software Use Year
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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Come Easier Last Startup Winning Worry
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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Dad Education Mom Pretty Serious Teacher
It’s unfortunate biologically we have to sleep.
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Biological Sleep Unfortunate
Start with the assumption that the best way to do something is not the way it’s being done right now.
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Assumption Best Done Start Way
We’re going from a world of customized software to standardized platforms.
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Building Custom Platform Standard World
The only barrier to entry you can create is to consistently build a great product.
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Barrie Consistently Create Entry Great Product
Better to be too early and have to try again, than be too late and have to catch up.
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Catch Early Late Too Try Trying
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
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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Change Jobs Latter Sometime Tried Way

Too little process and you can’t get good work done. Too much process and you can’t get any work done. Most companies never find the middle.

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Too little process and you can’t get good work done. Too much process and you can’t get any work done. Most companies never find the middle.

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