early days
thinking about the early days of artists, businesses, and other ambitious endeavors.
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early days
never judge a technology by its early days
“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
First Versions
firstversions.com
a great little repository cataloguing the first versions of the things we love and use every day.
I did not make a single $ from 20VC for three years.
4 shows per week for 3 years and not $1.
For the first 150 episodes, I did not get more than 1,000 plays per episode.
This is a game of who can survive the longest.
Do not quit.
Harry Stebbingsx.com
Something that has been on my mind lately: things take time. https://t.co/uc2Szlyt4b
Linear’s first launch only had 18 upvotes.
In Launch #2 they refined their tagline.
Q: How do the best startup founders make it through the dark times?
As Sam Altman puts it in the clip below:
“No one is as honest about how bad the early days are as they should be because it’s so embarrassing in retrospect.”
Even though Open AI is rumored to be... See more