That’s already been tried before only means the first attempt got it wrong.
AARON LEVIEAlways 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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All we’re really doing is repeating technologies that were tried 10, 20, 30 years ago… it’s just that it was too expensive, too unusable, and we didn’t have the enabling technologies to make it possible.
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Uber is a $3.5 billion lesson in building for how the world *should* work instead of optimizing for how the world *does* work
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Listen to your customers, but don’t always build exactly what they’re telling you. This is a really key distinction around building enterprise software.
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Startups live at the intersection of existential crisis and everything going perfectly great.
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Opportunity lives at the intersection of what people need tomorrow and can be just barely built today.
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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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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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Modularize, don’t customize. Build a platform as opposed to building all of the custom technology and custom vertical experiences.
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You intentionally start small, because you will not be able to compete with an incumbent… because the incumbent is always going to go for the full solution.
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Execute like there’s no tomorrow, strategize like there will be.
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We didn’t really start the company to go build an enterprise software company.
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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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We’re going from a world of customized software to standardized platforms.
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If people don’t think the odds are against you, you’re doing it wrong.
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The IT model of the enterprise has become a lot more user lead.
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