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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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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 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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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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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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Modularize, don't customize. Build a platform as opposed to building all of the custom technology and custom vertical experiences.
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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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Better to be right about the trend and wrong about the implementation, than the other way around.
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What happens to the Microsofts, Oracles and IBMs of the world is that when they get big enough, they don't think they need to bring that same level of focus and energy to the end-user experience.
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A lot of being productive personally is determined by how you organize your entire business. You can't separate those two things.
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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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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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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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Better to be too early and have to try again, than be too late and have to catch up.
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When you're doing something you're passionate about, stress becomes a featurenot a bug.
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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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We're going from a world of customized software to standardized platforms.
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We didn't really start the company to go build an enterprise software company.
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Execute like there's no tomorrow, strategize like there will be.
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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 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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