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Opportunity lives at the intersection of what people need tomorrow and can be just barely built today.

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Aaron Levie
Age: 38
Born: 1985
Born: December 27
Entrepreneur
Seattle
Washington
People
Barely
Built
Tomorrow
Opportunity
Lives
Today
Need
Intersection
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They can bring the technology in, then you can sell to the enterprise when they want to have better control, better security... you still have the same biz model as a traditional enterprise sw company, but the way to get into the company is through the end user.
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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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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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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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If every customer is using your product correctly, you'll never learn anything interesting about what to do next.
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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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Better to be right about the trend and wrong about the implementation, than the other way around.
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Innovation is hard because solving problems people didn't know they had & building something no one needs look identical at first.
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That's already been tried before only means the first attempt got it wrong.
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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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My co-founder Dylan Smith and I left our junior year of college to move to the Bay Area. To the horror of our friends' parents, we actually had two other friends drop out of college to work on the product. The four of us were just working non-stop growing Box.
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If you're in your early 20s and you're hanging out with a bunch of other people in their early 20s, nobody has a sense of the kinds of problems that real 'workers' run into every day. They're running into a completely different set of problems like 'what's the party going on right now that I should be going to?
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Uber is a $3.5 billion lesson in building for how the world *should* work instead of optimizing for how the world *does* work
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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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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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Execute like there's no tomorrow, strategize like there will be.
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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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When you're doing something you're passionate about, stress becomes a featurenot a bug.
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I'm certainly not into money and prestige. For me there is simply nothing more exciting than people involved in the creation of great products. That is what drives me.
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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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