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.
Remembering this logged out profile redesign like it was just yesterday.
Lots of work to try to get the exact right language on top of the page to describe what Twitter is and why it is useful to sign up.
The key measure was engaged users who signed up.
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Josh Elmanx.com
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!
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
Sony was founded on this day in 1946.
Its first product was an electric rice cooker.
Here’s more on the journey… 🧵
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.
Paul Graham • How to Do Great Work
Instagram - "the social aspect could be good...although I have no friends :("
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: https://t.co/TTV7NI61md
Billy Oppenheimertwitter.com