10 Awesome Startup Tweets from Box’s Aaron Levie

If you haven’t been following Box’s Aaron Levie (@levie) on Twitter, you’ve been missing out. Levie has some of the most poignant and prescient startup quips anywhere. Here are 10 of my favorite startup tweets from @levie:

1. The best disruptions reduce the cost of technology, expand its availability, and create more value for the ecosystem, not less. (link)
2. The first era of enterprise software was won with sales, being closed, and complexity. This era: service, openness, and simplicity. (link)
3. Sometimes things are the way they are and can’t be changed, other times it’s because no one ever tried. Your job is to find the latter. (link)
4. The trick is to build a core competency narrow enough to be unique, yet broad enough to be compelling, and then constantly evolve it. (link)
5. The only way to avoid disruption is to constantly do what you would do if you were just starting out. (link)
6. 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. (link)
7. Imagination > Resources = Disruptor.
   Resources > Imagination = Disrupted. (link)
8. Spend only as much time thinking about the competition as it takes to beat them, and nothing more. (link)
9. Your time horizon matters more than almost anything else as a startup. The longer you’re in the game, the more shots you can take. (link)
10. Better to go after a bigger market without all the answers, than a smaller market without any questions. (link)

@levie does an amazing job distilling startup strategy into 140 character sound bites. I’m looking forward to reading many more.

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