"Realize that a startup puts you on an emotional rollercoaster unlike anything you have ever experienced. You will flip rapidly from a day in which you are euphorically convinced you are going to own the world, to a day in which doom seems only weeks away and you feel completely ruined, and back again. Over and over and over."

Marc Andreessen (via msg / mikehudack / saadiq) (via josephsunga)

For the past month or so we’ve been on that part of the roller coaster where you’re clicking up the super-steep incline at the beginning, both eagerly anticipating and anxiously dreading what’s on the other side of that peak. This week we got our first taste of the ride to come and so far, so good (or, at least no one has puked yet…)