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Focus too much on the near-term and you won’t get tomorrow’s customers, focus too much on the long-term and you won’t get today’s.

Aaron Levie

Read these 3 books – Crossing the Chasm, Innovators Dilemma and Behind the Cloud.
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Book Building Chasm Cloud Clouds Innovator
The best technology is aimed far enough in the future that it stands out, but close enough to the present that it blends in.
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Close Enough Out Present Standing Technology
Better to be right about the trend and wrong about the implementation, than the other way around.
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Around Better Implementation Right Trend Way Wrong
We’re enamored with the concept that there’s always a price. But sometimes, your goal is to build a great company, not sell it.
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Build Company Concept Enamore Goal Great Sometimes
I think bad politics are incredibly dangerous, so it’s important to make sure that people are communicating well. Culture and morale are super important. It’s best to not force it, but let it happen organically and genuinely.
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Dangerous Important Incredible People Politics Thinking
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
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
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
When you’re doing something you’re passionate about, stress becomes a featurenot a bug.
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Bug Feature Passionate Something Stress
You want to find the really crazy but still somewhat reasonable outliers within the customer ecosystem.
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Crazy Customer Ecosystem Reasonable
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
The IT model of the enterprise has become a lot more user lead.
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Building Enterprise IT Lead Model
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
If people don’t think the odds are against you, you’re doing it wrong.
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Against Odd People Thinking Wrong
Focus too much on the near-term and you won’t get tomorrow’s customers, focus too much on the long-term and you won’t get today’s.
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Focus Long Term Today Tomorrow
It’s unfortunate biologically we have to sleep.
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Biological Sleep Unfortunate

Focus too much on the near-term and you won’t get tomorrow’s customers, focus too much on the long-term and you won’t get today’s.

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