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Lecture 12: Building for the Enterprise

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Re: Lecture 12: Building for the Enterprise

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My trouble with the enterprise has always been that they tend to lag when it comes to adopting new ways of doing things. As a result, if you listen slavishly to what enterprise customers tell you to build you'll be building solutions to yesterday's problems or technology for yesterday's ecosystem. I've found more recently that this isn't always true, and it really depends on what sort of enterprise you're dealing wit…

You're not looking in the right places. If you're looking at something that is a boring part of the business where reliable, predictable outputs are the priority, you'll get nothing.

In areas with high impact areas where transformation of the business is a priority, enterprise moves fast and can drive innovation.

Re: Lecture 12: Building for the Enterprise

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I would've hoped for less about Box's story and more focus about building an enterprise software company, but he did touch on some areas towards the latter half of the lecture. I summarized about 32 quotes (primarily for the latter half of the lecture) here: https://medium.com/how-to-start-a-startup/32-quotes-from-aar...
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