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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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Look for new enabling technologies that create a wide gap between how things have been done and how they can be done.
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Done Enable Look Technology
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
We didn’t really start the company to go build an enterprise software company.
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Building Company Enterprise Software Start
In the enterprise you want to start intentionally small.
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Building Enterprise Intention Small Want
When you’re doing something you’re passionate about, stress becomes a featurenot a bug.
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Bug Feature Passionate Something Stress
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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Focus Long Term Today Tomorrow
You’ll learn more in a day talking to customers than a week of brainstorming, a month of watching competitors, or a year of market research.
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Competition Customer Research Talking Watch Year
Read these 3 books – Crossing the Chasm, Innovators Dilemma and Behind the Cloud.
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Book Building Chasm Cloud Clouds Innovator
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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Encouragement Idea People Thinking Wait Wrong
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
Startups live at the intersection of existential crisis and everything going perfectly great.
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Crisis Existential Great Perfectly Startup
Entrepreneurship: 10% coach, 20% player, 30% cheerleader, 40% waterboy.
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Cheerleader Coach Entrepreneur Player Waterboy
The benefit to building a startup is that customers don’t have the same kind of friction when they adopt new technology.
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Adopt Benefits Customer Friction Kind Technology
The most customer-centric organizations can answer any question by deciding what’s best for the customer, without ever having to ask.
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Answer Ask Centric Customer Decide Organization
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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Every single industry is going through a major business model and technology oriented disruption.
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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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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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