early days
thinking about the early days of artists, businesses, and other ambitious endeavors.
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early days
Linear’s first launch only had 18 upvotes.
In Launch #2 they refined their tagline.
How do you get from starting small to doing something great? By making successive versions. Great things are almost always made in successive versions. You start with something small and evolve it, and the final version is both cleverer and more ambitious than anything you could have planned.
How to Do Great Work
from 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
... See moreWhen 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.com
Because of how much we deify the great entrepreneurs of our time, we end up inevitably comparing our new company
John Koenig • Edward Lando
never judge a technology by its early days
Instagram - "the social aspect could be good...although I have no friends :("