A short YouTube talk by Jason M. Lemkin describing how he started a blog without directly copying others. He discusses early inspirations (e.g., Mark Suster's blog), his first notable post titled "Everybody Lies" about pre-IPO revenues, and an encouraging interaction (a like) from Aaron Levie that inspired him.
I mean, unlike folks today, are much more intentional, I think, because there's more people to copy. I didn't have anyone to copy other than that little bit of Mark Sister's blog. Copying a blog is. It's copying, but it's not really copying much more than that. You built on top of it? Yeah, a verticalized version. It was just more an inspiration. But, I mean, the simple answer is, look, I started writing this blog, and then, like, the first day I wrote it, the first real post was called Everybody Lies. And it was about real revenue for a whole bunch of people before they IPO'd. And I wrote it, and I got a like from Aaron Levy. Okay, So I knew Aaron, but I didn't think he'd write stuff. So I kind of got inspired.
