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1/ I like looking back to the early writing of some now-famous bloggers. These aren't meant to poke fun at authors' dated thoughts, but, rather, to show that these now-big-voices have grown out of humble beginnings:
2/ An old one of @ev's from 1998 lives on thanks to archive.org:
web.archive.org/web/1999091306…

"The real retailer of the future—the type that will eventually knock the silly grin off Jeff Bezos’ sadly ignorant face – is the one that gets even more specialized."

😂🤷‍♂️
3/ Before @ycombinator there were @paulg's essays. May 2001:

paulgraham.com/popular.html

"Someone who's not a programmer would find it hard to imagine that there could be pleasure in a bug. ... And yet there is undeniably a grim satisfaction in hunting down certain sorts of bugs."
4/ Now prolific @fredwilson was unsure c.2003:

avc.com/2003/09/my_fir…

"I read blogs a lot. And i think they are great. So i am starting a blog. I have no idea if i’ll write a lot in my blog or rarely. I hope its a lot, because i have a lot to say. But we’ll see about that."
5/ A 2004 post by @sacca ruminating on the heavy burden a Google user must face in the pre-FB/Twitter era of discovery:

whatisleft.org/lookie_here/20…

"One of my biggest challenges as a Google user has been 'what to search for?' I am almost intellectually intimidated..."
6/ In 2005 @hunterwalk started his blog by opining on Tivo:

hunterwalk.com/2005/06/16/ori…

"What does that have to do with this blog? Only that my focus is going to be on popular culture – what you should consume, and how to fast-forward 3x to get to the good parts."
7/ Rewind the clock to 2005 (well before "crypto-twitter-Naval") and have a look at @naval's first blog post which happened to be on American Culture:

startupboy.com/2005/11/29/ame…
8/ Everyone knows the powerhouse of content production that @firstround has built over the years. I remember reading @joshk's original redeyevc.com in 2006. He saw early on the organic usefulness of writing for building a venture brand:

redeye.firstround.com/2006/03/yet_an…
9/ An unceremonious start to @eladgil's writing c.2007:

blog.eladgil.com/2007/08/welcom…

"I will largely write short updates on major changes (moving to Beijing in September, coming back to the Bay Area to start a company etc.) rather then the minutiae of my day to day existence"
10/ I hope you come away inspired to write more. I know I do. I hope you just write something and get it out there and find your voice and improve from there.

And I hope the @dksf of the future will be gentle/kind on my early published words. 😂
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Corollary: You should spend almost no time doing stuff which is already well understood by someone else.
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1/ I was thinking about some of the things I've changed my mind about in the past 10 years.

Here's a list:
2/ I used to think of angel investing versus professional venture capital investing as "little league" versus "major league". Now I see them as two very different crafts, but with related skillsets and sometimes cross-over practitioners.
3/ I used to be skeptical of "fin-tech" as it seemed like a weak combination of traditional Internet customer acquisition applied to traditional financial services business models. Now I think fin-tech may be one of the most interesting/impactful areas of technology today.
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1/ A lot of people hypothesize about ways to "build a better YC" (accelerators, incubators, etc.).
2/ I think there are all kinds of opportunities to serve early stage entrepreneurs in new ways. But the best way to find an opportunity like this is to look at what's underserved by the existing systems. Hint: access to capital is not your differentiator.
3/ When @paulg started @ycombinator access to capital for that stage and company profile *was* an important part of his differentiator. Today it is not. What is underserved today?
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... Anybody remember "Profit?" It was a canceled TV series about a dude who had been raised in ridiculously abusive circumstances, in a cardboard box, who then spends his adult life attempting to take over the megacorp whose logo was on the box he lived in until his teens.
Jim Profit pretended to be like this Ivy League business grad with impeccable morals and character when he was the straight-up decency dead zone and didn't know how to give a shit about ANYONE.

He did a lot of 4th-wall breaking, too, talking to the audience.
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I spent too much time focusing on management when I should have focused on relationships with kids. On seeing, really *seeing* them. 1/
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Too much time focusing on having answers rather than seeking the right questions.

Too much time focusing on “rules” versus the rights of my students to read, to write, and to speak authentically. 2/
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For those of you saying it’s only been a year you couldn’t have grown up that much... yes i have. I have grown up so much in the year. You don’t know me so you have no right in saying i couldn’t have grown up that much in a year.
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