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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
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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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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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Listen to your customers, but don't always build exactly what they're telling you. This is a really key distinction around building enterprise software.
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The IT model of the enterprise has become a lot more user lead.
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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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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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My dad is a chemical engineer, and my mom was a teacher. They were pretty serious about education, but I always thought about things a little bit differently.
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Tip: Take the stodgiest, oldest, slowest moving industry you can find. And build amazing software for it.
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When you're doing something you're passionate about, stress becomes a featurenot a bug.
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I don't use many apps. I use naps.
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Entrepreneurship: 10% coach, 20% player, 30% cheerleader, 40% waterboy.
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The product that wins is the one that bridges customers to the future, not the one that requires a giant leap.
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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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Steve Jobs is the most epic entrepreneur of all time. He served as a guiding light for any emerging businessperson who wanted to learn how things should get done. He'll be looked at as one of the best business leaders of all time, and certainly one of the best tech entrepreneurs.
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There's a lot of pride that business owners have. It's actually really critical that pride and ownership extends to everyone in the organization. I think of everyone is in the same boat in driving the company forward.
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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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Opportunity lives at the intersection of what people need tomorrow and can be just barely built today.
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Read these 3 books - Crossing the Chasm, Innovators Dilemma and Behind the Cloud.
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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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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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