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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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Aaron Levie
Age: 38
Born: 1985
Born: December 27
Entrepreneur
Seattle
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When you're doing something you're passionate about, stress becomes a featurenot a bug.
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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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That's already been tried before only means the first attempt got it wrong.
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The only barrier to entry you can create is to consistently build a great product.
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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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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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Read these 3 books - Crossing the Chasm, Innovators Dilemma and Behind the Cloud.
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If people don't think the odds are against you, you're doing it wrong.
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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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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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Do things that incumbents can't or won't do because it's economically or technically infeasible.
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