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You want to find the really crazy but still somewhat reasonable outliers within the customer ecosystem.

Aaron Levie

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
Entrepreneurship: 10% coach, 20% player, 30% cheerleader, 40% waterboy.
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Cheerleader Coach Entrepreneur Player Waterboy
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
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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Annoy Driven Kind Thinking Would
You want to find the really crazy but still somewhat reasonable outliers within the customer ecosystem.
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Crazy Customer Ecosystem Reasonable
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
Read these 3 books – Crossing the Chasm, Innovators Dilemma and Behind the Cloud.
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Book Building Chasm Cloud Clouds Innovator
Better to be too early and have to try again, than be too late and have to catch up.
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Catch Early Late Too Try Trying
In the enterprise you want to start intentionally small.
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Building Enterprise Intention Small Want
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
A lot of being productive personally is determined by how you organize your entire business. You can’t separate those two things.
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Business Determined Organize Productive Two
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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Achieve Cliche People Sight Thinking
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
Start with the assumption that the best way to do something is not the way it’s being done right now.
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Assumption Best Done Start Way
You’ll learn more in a day talking to customers than a week of brainstorming, a month of watching competitors, or a year of market research.
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Competition Customer Research Talking Watch Year
The IT model of the enterprise has become a lot more user lead.
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Building Enterprise IT Lead Model

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