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Entrepreneurship: 10% coach, 20% player, 30% cheerleader, 40% waterboy.

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Aaron Levie
Age: 38
Born: 1985
Born: December 27
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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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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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All we're really doing is repeating technologies that were tried 10, 20, 30 years ago... it's just that it was too expensive, too unusable, and we didn't have the enabling technologies to make it possible.
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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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Opportunity lives at the intersection of what people need tomorrow and can be just barely built today.
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In an IT lead world, incumbents generally win because they have the existing relationship with the IT organization.
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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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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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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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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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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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Modularize, don't customize. Build a platform as opposed to building all of the custom technology and custom vertical experiences.
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Better to be too early and have to try again, than be too late and have to catch up.
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My mom is proud of me. But she might not be too happy about the hours I keep or how little I eat. I wake up so late that it would be inappropriate to have breakfast. At most, I will have a snack in the day and dinner. I realize that it's not the healthiest way to live, but it's all I really have time for.
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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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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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When you're doing something you're passionate about, stress becomes a featurenot a bug.
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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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We didn't really start the company to go build an enterprise software company.
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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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