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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.

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Aaron Levie
Age: 38
Born: 1985
Born: December 27
Entrepreneur
Seattle
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The business models in enterprise have changed pretty dramatically. A huge problem with enterprise software traditionally has been usually you sell to the customer and then they adopt the technology. The great thing about 'freemium' and the new way enterprise software is being sold is you get to try it first and then buy it.
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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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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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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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Companies have never won. You're always either fighting for survival, or fighting for relevance.
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I'm obsessed with speed. I'm always asking myself, 'Why can't we do things faster? Why can't it happen more efficiently? Why is this requiring three meetings instead of one?'
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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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Every single industry is going through a major business model and technology oriented disruption.
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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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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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Jeff Bezos is opening a retail store and owns a newspaper. Turns out everything we thought about the Internet is wrong.
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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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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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When you're doing something you're passionate about, stress becomes a featurenot a bug.
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We didn't really start the company to go build an enterprise software company.
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My downtime tends to resemble my uptime. Weekends are workdays, but toned down. Over the whole weekend, I may have five meetings, as opposed to six on a weekday. I used to play piano for 30 minutes at night, but I had to pull that out of my schedule. I don't have time for nonwork stuff.
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Startups often win because it's easier to see what comes next when you don't have to worry about maintaining what came last.
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If people don't think the odds are against you, you're doing it wrong.
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You'll learn more in a day talking to customers than a week of brainstorming, a month of watching competitors, or a year of market research.
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Everything about the enterprise, and then by definition the software the enterprise uses has changed - just in the last 5 years.
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