early days
thinking about the early days of artists, businesses, and other ambitious endeavors.
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early days
First Versions
firstversions.com
a great little repository cataloguing the first versions of the things we love and use every day.
“You’re probably wondering what we’re trying to do. It’s hard to say. We hope that we have something here... We’ve been working quite hard at it. We hope you can dig it.
To describe it any further would be difficult without sounding like bullshit.”
- Rolling Stone, Vol. 1, No. 1
When he was 11, Kobe Bryant played a full 25-game basketball season without scoring a single point.
He then took a simple mathematical approach to becoming one of the all-time greats:
Billy Oppenheimertwitter.comfrom Reddit founder:
At parties, the awkwardness of trying to tell people what we did for a living (“We, uh, build a website. You know, it’s kind of a news-type website.”) gave way to recognition (“Oh yeah, I’ve heard of that site.”), and then to profuse thanks for a great time-waster. Towards the end, actual introductions became unnecessary — peopl
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Instagram - "the social aspect could be good...although I have no friends :("
2009 (before they were famous) at South by Southwest in Austin, Mumford played "The Cave" live at Red House Pizzeria.
Crowd of like 12 people, but it was the beginning of a banger!
never judge a technology by its early days
Linear’s first launch only had 18 upvotes.
In Launch #2 they refined their tagline.
