Listen to your customers, but don’t always build exactly what they’re telling you. This is a really key distinction around building enterprise software.
AARON LEVIEEvery single industry is going through a major business model and technology oriented disruption.
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We’re going from a world of customized software to standardized platforms.
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Look for new enabling technologies that create a wide gap between how things have been done and how they can be done.
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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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You can keep ‘consumer’ DNA at the center of your product. That will always mean that adoption is easier.
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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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Better to be right about the trend and wrong about the implementation, than the other way around.
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That’s already been tried before only means the first attempt got it wrong.
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Execute like there’s no tomorrow, strategize like there will be.
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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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Entrepreneurship: 10% coach, 20% player, 30% cheerleader, 40% waterboy.
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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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The only barrier to entry you can create is to consistently build a great product.
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Your product should sell itself, but that does not mean you don’t need salespeople.
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The only way to avoid disruption is to constantly do what you would if you were just starting out.
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Every single industry is going through a major business model and technology oriented disruption.
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