Founders at Work: Stories of Startups' Early Days

So just get something out there. If you find really early versions of ONElist or Bloglines on archive.org, the websites are horrible. They are crap, they don't have any features, they just try to do one thing. And you just iterate because users are going to tell you what they want, and they're your best feedback. It's critical just to get something

For a lot of entrepreneurs, they see something and they say, "I have to have this," and that will start them building their own.

Livingston: Do you have any regrets from the experience? Graham: One thing I regret is how pathetic we were during much of this whole process. We all had practically zero assets when we started, and this was during the Internet Bubble, remember—very early in the Internet Bubble, but still, there were people starting companies and getting them bough

Graham: Probably, but I worried about all the different things that could kill us and all the different ways they could kill us. People start startups to get rich, but what keeps them going day to day is the fear of failure. You've said, "OK, I'm starting this startup and I'm going to get all the users and be successful," and once you've