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Aaron Levie

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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Definite Expand People Simple Toy
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
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
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 only barrier to entry you can create is to consistently build a great product.
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Barrie Consistently Create Entry Great Product
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
In a user lead model, users are bringing in their own technology… and you can build software then, around the user.
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Bringing Building Lead Model Software Technology
The IT model of the enterprise has become a lot more user lead.
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Building Enterprise IT Lead Model
Opportunity lives at the intersection of what people need tomorrow and can be just barely built today.
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Bare Build Need Opportunity People Tomorrow
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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Change Market Material Raw Significant Technology
Read these 3 books – Crossing the Chasm, Innovators Dilemma and Behind the Cloud.
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Book Building Chasm Cloud Clouds Innovator
When you’re doing something you’re passionate about, stress becomes a featurenot a bug.
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Bug Feature Passionate Something Stress
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
Every single industry is going through a major business model and technology oriented disruption.
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Building Business Disruption Model Oriented Technology
The chance of failure is almost always better than the guarantee of never knowing.
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Always Chance Failure Guarantee Know Knowing

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