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Execute like there's no tomorrow, strategize like there will be.

Entrepreneur Tomorrow

Startups often win because it's easier to see what comes next when you don't have to worry about maintaining what came last.

Lasts Winning Worry

Opportunity lives at the intersection of what people need tomorrow and can be just barely built today.

Needs Opportunity People

The product that wins is the one that bridges customers to the future, not the one that requires a giant leap.

Bridges Giants Winning

Better to be too early and have to try again, than be too late and have to catch up.

Late Too Late Trying

Start with the assumption that the best way to do something is not the way it's being done right now.

Assumption Done Way

I think people are always able to achieve more than they think they can. While that’s cliche, I don’t know if managers think about that enough. You have to set your sights extremely high.

People Sight Thinking

Too little process and you can't get good work done. Too much process and you can't get any work done. Most companies never find the middle.

Done Littles Too Much

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?'

Asking Brilliant Three

If every customer is using your product "correctly", you'll never learn anything interesting about what to do next.

Customers Interesting Next

I think I'm the kind of person who would be very difficult to employ - I'm pretty annoying, but driven.

Kind Thinking Would Be

I have a lot of faults. I often interrupt in meetings. I talk too loud. I talk too fast.

Faults Loud Meetings

When you're doing something you're passionate about, stress becomes a featurenot a bug.

Bugs Passionate Stress

We're going from a world of customized software to standardized platforms.

Building Platforms World

Start with something simple and small, then expand over time. If people call it a 'toy' you're definitely onto something.

People Simple Toys

Do things that incumbents can't or won't do because it's economically or technically infeasible.

Building Incumbents

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

Firsts Mean

The only way to avoid disruption is to constantly do what you would if you were just starting out.

Disruption Starting Out Way

Companies have never won. You're always either fighting for survival, or fighting for relevance.

Entrepreneur Fighting Survival

Tip: Take the stodgiest, oldest, slowest moving industry you can find. And build amazing software for it.

Industry Moving Software