Entrepreneurship: 10% coach, 20% player, 30% cheerleader, 40% waterboy.
AARON LEVIEAny time where the delta b/w what is possible and how things work today is at its widest, that’s an opportunity to go build new technology.
More Aaron Levie Quotes
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I have a lot of faults. I often interrupt in meetings. I talk too loud. I talk too fast.
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Innovation is hard because solving problems people didn’t know they had & building something no one needs look identical at first.
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My workday begins around 11 A.M., with a cup of black coffee in each hand. If I had more hands, there would be more coffee.
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Every single industry is going through a major business model and technology oriented disruption.
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Tip: Take the stodgiest, oldest, slowest moving industry you can find. And build amazing software for it.
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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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Startups live at the intersection of existential crisis and everything going perfectly great.
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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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Read these 3 books – Crossing the Chasm, Innovators Dilemma and Behind the Cloud.
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We’re going from a world of customized software to standardized platforms.
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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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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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Go after the customers that are working in the future, but haven’t totally lost their minds.
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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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The chance of failure is almost always better than the guarantee of never knowing.
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