UX Myth #32: Success happens overnight
Great post by Zoltán Gócza at UX Myths about how many “overnight successes” weren’t really overnight successes, actually taking years before being truly popular.
The fact is that it takes many years to be an overnight success even for internet entrepreneurs. Years of hard work learning and experimenting and many failures along the way. And sometimes pursuing a project almost everybody dislikes, like developing Gmail with its “crazy Javascript stuff”.
The article has links to stories about Amazon.com, the iPod, and even The Beatles among others, as well as links to other articles on the same topic.