No, everyone has great ideas, but what makes a difference, especially online, or just in life, is actually doing it; getting that first version out there.

No, everyone has great ideas, but what makes a difference, especially online, or just in life, is actually doing it; getting that first version out there.

Hundreds of these companies I've seen since the beginning stages - including Dropbox and Airbnb - one of them has actually been crushed by an incumbent. The Googles, the Twitters, the Facebooks, they might be someone to acquire you, which is not necessarily a bad position to be in.

I guess if you include contractors that are six or seven people working on reddit, but when we got acquired there were basically three and then in the years since, we've added three more developer hires full time, and a community manger. But the site is still remarkably small.

It takes discipline not to let social media steal your time.

Nothing will replace good journalism.

Let's say you're all worried about student-loan debt and you need to have steady income. That doesn't have to be your everything.