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That's already been tried before only means the first attempt got it wrong.

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Aaron Levie
Age: 38
Born: 1985
Born: December 27
Entrepreneur
Seattle
Washington
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The only barrier to entry you can create is to consistently build a great product.
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I have a lot of faults. I often interrupt in meetings. I talk too loud. I talk too fast.
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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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All of a sudden, if you think about the entire ecosystem of connected devices that can pull down information, access content and allow me to share and work and communicate, the vast majority now are not Windows computers. They are iPhones. They are iPads. They are Android devices.
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You can keep 'consumer' DNA at the center of your product. That will always mean that adoption is easier.
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Go after the customers that are working in the future, but haven't totally lost their minds.
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If you don't go to every level of your company, you distance yourself from the marketplace and from your people.
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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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If there could've ever been a magical time to build an enterprise software company, now is absolutely that time.
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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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Startups live at the intersection of existential crisis and everything going perfectly great.
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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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We're going from a world of customized software to standardized platforms.
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I tend to not discriminate when it comes to people I can learn from. Basically, if someone has built a meaningful business in software, technology or media, faced disruption and adversity, and overcame underdog status, I want to know how they did it.
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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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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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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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My workday begins around 11 A.M., with a cup of black coffee in each hand. If I had more hands, there would be more coffee.
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