Learn from your predecessors' mistakes and brainstorm about how to improve upon their model.
During your interview at Fortune Brainstorm Tech last July, you mentioned that one mistake Box made with the original filing timing was that, in the prior year, you had made a lot of costly investments that had not yet borne revenue fruit.
Basically what you need to do is figure out your biggest expenses, then brainstorm ways to save and tackle the biggest expenses first.
Then I had a brainstorm.
Lester Brown, Fortune Brainstorm Conference, 2006 An economist is a surgeon with an excellent scalpel and a rough-edged lancet, who operates beautifully on the dead and tortures the living.
