The same rule applies to building new products within existing companies. As Andy Grove would point out, if you’re not creating a 10X improvement on the dimension of cost, efficiency, or benefit to the consumer, you’re hosed.Īnd emerging startups aren’t unique here. If you don’t do this, you won’t stand out, you won’t gain traction, and you won’t win. The idea is to constantly be reaching for the edge of what’s possible, extending the limits of what’s expected and turning the novel into habit.
Maybe the advantage is an order of magnitude change in the price and availability of infrastructure because of the cloud (Cloudera, DotCloud, Twilio), or the now-ubiquitous access to powerful ‘smart’ devices (Square, Uber, Kno, Airy Labs), or a change in social behavior at both work and home (Yammer, Jive, HealthTap), or all three. If you’re not taking advantage of some fundamentally new enabler, you’re toast. And with the speed of change on the internet reaching escape velocity, eras are measured in quarters, not years. The only companies worth starting in this industry are those that couldn’t have existed in another era. Make sure you’re constantly doing something that wasn’t possible 3 years ago Well, before you get much farther, here are a few unsolicited lessons I thought I’d share after five roller-coaster years in the valley: You have yet to make your first pivot, you couldn’t have been turned down by more than a couple of VCs, and I’m sure the team dynamic is just copacetic. The launches at Disrupt and Demo a few weeks ago got me thinking about that magical stage in the startup lifecycle: the point in the building process where anything and everything is possible. Technology that helps us to communicate, save and improve lives, or make better decisions in our businesses, faster. But this will only happen if we’re working on truly world-changing technology.
#Go forth and conquer software#
Marc Andreessen recently laid out an amazingly tight argument for why software will pretty much take over the world. And refreshingly, I didn’t need any modifiers to describe these startups: nothing about “watching television while tweeting,” or “facilitating healthcare with local coupons.” No, these have the potential to be game-changing services from entrepreneurs that have set their eyes on the dream. In the past few months alone, I’ve heard of new companies that stand to radically transform how we interact with healthcare, blow open television consumption, and make education mobile. Today’s revolving technology landscape will favor those with a bias toward speed, change, and disruption. With this transition of old to new, and new to old, comes a strikingly rare opportunity to build the next great technology powerhouses. From the really old facing oscillating strategies and leaders to the newly old churning through CEOs as fast as they dead-pool products, refocusing the entire company on competing with Zuckerberg, or causing major customer confusion as they shift into the future or even the older-new, content with a pivot or two before a friendly landing into Google or Facebook. The old technology guard of Silicon Valley is rapidly unhinging. Please add the request in order notes while checking out and we will take care of it.Editor’s note: Guest author Aaron Levie is the founder and CEO of Box.net.
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