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The only way to avoid disruption is to constantly do what you would if you were just starting out.

Aaron Levie

Companies have never won. You’re always either fighting for survival, or fighting for relevance.
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Entrepreneur Fighting Relevance Survival
If people don’t think the odds are against you, you’re doing it wrong.
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Against Odd People Thinking Wrong
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
You want to find the really crazy but still somewhat reasonable outliers within the customer ecosystem.
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Crazy Customer Ecosystem Reasonable
It’s unfortunate biologically we have to sleep.
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Biological Sleep Unfortunate
Innovation in tech favors the naive and the stubborn. If you are too rational you won’t tackle problems that others once failed at.
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Favor Innovation Problem Stubborn Tech
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
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
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
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
I have a lot of faults. I often interrupt in meetings. I talk too loud. I talk too fast.
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Fast Fault Loud Meeting Talk
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
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
We didn’t really start the company to go build an enterprise software company.
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Building Company Enterprise Software Start
The only way to avoid disruption is to constantly do what you would if you were just starting out.
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Constant Disruption Out Starting Way
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

The only way to avoid disruption is to constantly do what you would if you were just starting out.

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