"Google was a very good search engine for two years before you started using it.
The iPod was a dud.
...I discovered a lucky secret the hard way about thirty years ago: you can outlast the other guys if you try. If you stick at stuff that bores them, it accrues. Drip, drip, drip you win.
It still takes ten years to become a success, web or no web."
You can read the full post on Seth's blog, but it's not a new insight that Seth is providing. When we watch Biography or Behind The Music we're often misled in to believing people find success overnight. Lots of puppeteers (myself included) are inspired by the success of The Muppet Show, but we tend to forget to took Jim Henson about twenty years to make it.
The truth is - as the old saying goes - most overnight success stories are a decade or two in the making.
