Start with the assumption that the best way to do something is not the way it’s being done right now.
AARON LEVIECompanies have never won. You’re always either fighting for survival, or fighting for relevance.
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When you’re doing something you’re passionate about, stress becomes a featurenot a bug.
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The product that wins is the one that bridges customers to the future, not the one that requires a giant leap.
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Start with something simple and small, then expand over time. If people call it a ‘toy’ you’re definitely onto something.
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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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Modularize, don’t customize. Build a platform as opposed to building all of the custom technology and custom vertical experiences.
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Uber is a $3.5 billion lesson in building for how the world *should* work instead of optimizing for how the world *does* work
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Entrepreneurship: 10% coach, 20% player, 30% cheerleader, 40% waterboy.
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Every single industry is going through a major business model and technology oriented disruption.
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Startups live at the intersection of existential crisis and everything going perfectly great.
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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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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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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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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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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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Always look for these changing technology factors- any market that has a significant change in the underlying raw materials …or enabling factors, is an environment that is about to change in a very significant way.
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