The first 5 years of traffic on http://paulgraham.com , from 1 April 2001 to 1 April 2006. Spikes are essays. The tallest one is "What You'll Wish You'd Known" (http://paulgraham.com/hs.html ).pic.twitter.com/Dzd1eTDYiw
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The spike immediately to the right of "What You'll Wish You'd Known" is the essay that Y Combinator grew out of, "How to Start a Startup" (http://paulgraham.com/start.html ).
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It's interesting because I read your essays and visited
@naval site before I even had any awareness of who you were, visually or intellectually. Great places.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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Have always enjoyed your essays.
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In what ways did YC grow out of that essay?
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So much wisdom for startups in one piece of essay.
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in a true startup style "we had to warn all the founders not to touch the walls, because the paint was still wet."
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"...work forward from promising situations." I've learned how to work forward by asking: Who is the unapparent, desperate player holding the resource card you need in their hands?
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