We’re going from a world of customized software to standardized platforms.
AARON LEVIEJeff Bezos is opening a retail store and owns a newspaper. Turns out everything we thought about the Internet is wrong.
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Your product should sell itself, but that does not mean you don’t need salespeople.
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There’s a lot of pride that business owners have. It’s actually really critical that pride and ownership extends to everyone in the organization. I think of everyone is in the same boat in driving the company forward.
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When you’re doing something you’re passionate about, stress becomes a featurenot a bug.
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Startups live at the intersection of existential crisis and everything going perfectly great.
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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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If every customer is using your product “correctly”, you’ll never learn anything interesting about what to do next.
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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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Entrepreneurship: 10% coach, 20% player, 30% cheerleader, 40% waterboy.
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Execute like there’s no tomorrow, strategize like there will be.
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The IT model of the enterprise has become a lot more user lead.
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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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In the enterprise you want to start intentionally small.
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We didn’t really start the company to go build an enterprise software company.
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I think I’m the kind of person who would be very difficult to employ – I’m pretty annoying, but driven.
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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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