Being early feels a lot like being wrong. The hard part is surviving the long middle.
Being early feels a lot like being wrong.
When you see something before others do, whether it is a technology, a market or a shift in how people live, the first reaction from most of the people around you will be confusion. Not hostility, usually. Just a polite lack of interest. The thing you are excited about does not yet make sense to them, because the conditions that will make it obvious have not arrived.
Competition gets the blame. Cash timing, founder bandwidth and drift do most of the damage.
The real test of a product is the tired person using it on a cracked phone with one bar of signal.
Price is never just arithmetic. It is a statement about what you believe your work is worth.
Opinions formed in an hour are rarely worth holding for a year.