I honestly reminds me of two talks from Startup School. One from Tom Preston-Werner of GitHub. He talked about "luck" and how part is chance and part is you.

I honestly reminds me of two talks from Startup School. One from Tom Preston-Werner of GitHub. He talked about "luck" and how part is chance and part is you. He moved himself to Silicon Valley to improve his luck. He also talked about the basic steps he used to "work his way up" to a success: http://www.justin.tv/startupschool/b/272178966 http://www.justin.tv/startupschool/b/272178966 The other was from Brian Chesky of AirBnB. He and his co-founders basically did whatever they had to, including selling novelty cereal boxes, to move up. He started his talk by saying how he was "powerless and obscure" and the moves he and AirBnB made, including joining Y Cominator to get to where they were profitable and "on the map" http://www.justin.tv/startupschool/b/272180383 http://www.justin.tv/startupschool/b/272180383 We may not start out by fetching coffee for Paul Graham's 3nd assistant (I doubt he has one), but we do all have to start from somewhere and make whatever moves we have to in order to move up. That may involve toiling at night, moving to SF or elsewhere, or whatever. But it still just needs to get done. Enough said, I've got some coding to do this Saturday night.