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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.

Aaron Levie

In an IT lead world, incumbents generally win because they have the existing relationship with the IT organization.
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Incumbent IT Organisation Organization Relationship Winning World
Any time where the delta b/w what is possible and how things work today is at its widest, that’s an opportunity to go build new technology.
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Delta Opportunity Possible Technology Today Wide
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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Cause Done Percentage Stress Time
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
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
If there could’ve ever been a magical time to build an enterprise software company, now is absolutely that time.
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Building Company Enterprise Magical Software Time
Too little process and you can’t get good work done. Too much process and you can’t get any work done. Most companies never find the middle.
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Done Little Much Person Process
When you’re doing something you’re passionate about, stress becomes a featurenot a bug.
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Bug Feature Passionate Something Stress
The benefit to building a startup is that customers don’t have the same kind of friction when they adopt new technology.
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Adopt Benefits Customer Friction Kind Technology
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.
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Building Customer Distinction Key Listen Software Tell
If people don’t think the odds are against you, you’re doing it wrong.
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Against Odd People Thinking Wrong
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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Done Enable Look Technology
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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Answer Ask Centric Customer Decide Organization
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
You can look at the cost structure of an incumbent company and discover: where are they not going to be able to drop their prices… because that business model is fundamental to the existence of the company.
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Company Cost Discover Fundamental Look Structure

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