Great bit by tsunamifury on Hacker News:
Hacker News上的Tsunamifury：

Most people fail, most projects go unfinished, most beyond that never make enough money to sustain a company.
大多数人都失败了，大多数项目都没有完成，大多数人都没有赚到足够的钱来维持公司。

A successful product is the evolutionary result of 10,000 products before it that failed, went unfinished, or were unprofitable. Even the best of the Valley didn’t sit down, bang out some brilliant code, slap a business strategy on top, then cash a billion dollar check. They worked long and hard through repeated failures, with sometimes B and C squad talent, slowly carving away at the block of ideas until a product appeared. Then after that, they spend months or years compiling a business strategy and altering the product to become palatable to enough customers to gain a profit.
一个成功的产品是之前10,000个失败的、未完成的或无利可图的产品的进化结果。即使是硅谷最好的人也不会坐下来，敲出一些精彩的代码，在上面加上一个商业战略，然后兑现一张10亿美元的支票。他们长期努力工作，经历了一次又一次的失败，有时是B和C班的人才，慢慢地雕刻在一块的想法，直到产品出现。然后，他们花了几个月或几年的时间来制定商业战略，并改变产品，使其能够满足足够多的客户的口味，从而获得利润。

It takes a team of imperfect people and a lot of time to make even a passable product. Even finishing a unprofitable product is an massive achievement in itself.
即使是一个过得去的产品，也需要一个由不完美的人组成的团队和大量的时间。即使完成一个不赚钱的产品本身也是一个巨大的成就。

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