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I think people are always able to achieve more than they think they can. While that’s cliche, I don’t know if managers think about that enough. You have to set your sights extremely high.

Aaron Levie

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
In the enterprise you want to start intentionally small.
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Building Enterprise Intention Small Want
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
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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Able Building Incumbent Intention Start
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
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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Build Innovation Need People Problem Solve
Entrepreneurship: 10% coach, 20% player, 30% cheerleader, 40% waterboy.
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Cheerleader Coach Entrepreneur Player Waterboy
Modularize, don’t customize. Build a platform as opposed to building all of the custom technology and custom vertical experiences.
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Building Custom Modularize Oppose Platform Technology
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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Change Definition Enterprise Software Use Year
The IT model of the enterprise has become a lot more user lead.
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Building Enterprise IT Lead Model
If people don’t think the odds are against you, you’re doing it wrong.
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Against Odd People Thinking Wrong
We didn’t really start the company to go build an enterprise software company.
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Building Company Enterprise Software Start
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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Extend Organization Ownership Pride Thinking
It’s unfortunate biologically we have to sleep.
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Biological Sleep Unfortunate
What happens to the Microsofts, Oracles and IBMs of the world is that when they get big enough, they don’t think they need to bring that same level of focus and energy to the end-user experience.
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Energy Focus IBM Microsoft Oracle Thinking World
When you’re doing something you’re passionate about, stress becomes a featurenot a bug.
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Bug Feature Passionate Something Stress

I think people are always able to achieve more than they think they can. While that’s cliche, I don’t know if managers think about that enough. You have to set your sights extremely high.

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I think people are always able to achieve more than they think they can. While that’s cliche, I don’t know if managers think about that enough. You have to set your sights extremely high.

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