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Dropbox (Current market cap : $8B) started as a one page site hosted on AWS. Lesson to learn : start small, dream big. Don't let your tech. complexities makes you fail your business.

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This is why I roll my eyes when people get too hung up on overengineering their MVP. Dropbox proved you can start stupid simple and still win big if you execute well. Also a good reminder that AWS enabled a ton of startups to go lean and get running without heavy upfront infrastructure costs. The cloud democratized startups.

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