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You can't make this point better than Leslie Lamport did:

If you're thinking without writing, you only think you're thinking.

Most people who attack or compete with you will be opportunists. So if the thing you're working on is your life's work, all you have to do is keep going, and eventually they'll drop away. Once several generations of them have dropped away you'll even stop caring about new ones.

For example, Ben Silbermann noticed that a lot of the earliest Pinterest users were interested in design, so he went to a conference of design bloggers to recruit users, and that worked well.

The question to ask about an early stage startup is not "is this company taking over the world?" but "how big could this company get if the founders did the right things?" And the right things often seem both laborious and inconsequential at the time.

Pay particular attention to things that chafe you.

Founder Mode: https://t.co/3hOnlKOJBi

When startups consume incumbents, they usually start by serving some small but important market that the big players ignore.