原文地址: http://thenextweb.com/boris/2013/10/28/17000-youtubes-youtube/
I know an entrepreneur who launched an online video platform in 1998. It never took off, and went out of business within two years. He still tells people he invented YouTube.
我知道一個(gè)人在98年做了一個(gè)在線視頻平臺(tái). 這個(gè)項(xiàng)目失敗了, 2年后掛了. 但是那個(gè)創(chuàng)始人還是告訴別人他發(fā)明了youtube這類型的在線視頻平臺(tái).
There were 18 Web search services before Google, and at least two of them were similar in the way they indexed pages online. I owned an application called Net2Phone in 1996 that allowed people to make online phone calls. That was years before Skype launched and became hugely successful.
在google之前有18種在線搜索服務(wù), 至少有2個(gè)也是用這種類似的給頁(yè)面建立在線索引的方式. 我自己96年的時(shí)候做了一個(gè)應(yīng)用叫做Net2Phone. 比skype早了N年.
I once heard someone claim “There were 17,000 YouTubes before YouTube.” That means that there were 17,000 services that offered some way of uploading and sharing movies online.
我曾經(jīng)聽過有人聲稱:"有17000個(gè)youtube們?cè)趛outube之前." 這意味著曾經(jīng)有17000個(gè)提供上傳分享視頻的服務(wù).
In other words; nothing is new, everything is a copy of something, or at least an iteration on a previous idea. The difference between YouTube and the 16,999 companies that failed before it is a combination of several factors. Execution, focus, timing and luck are all part of it. And those factors can be as important as the original idea.
我這么和你說(shuō)吧, 沒什么是新鮮的, 所有的東西都是另一種的復(fù)制品, 或者至少是之前一個(gè)想法的迭代結(jié)果. 區(qū)別在于16999個(gè)公司失敗了, youtube成功了. youtube的成功是多個(gè)因素的結(jié)合, 執(zhí)行力, 專注度, 天時(shí), 運(yùn)氣. 這些因素比最開始的想法重要多了.
Airbnb is an awesome company, and the idea is brilliant, except that there have been tens, maybe hundreds, of other companies that tried the same thing and failed, or were just less successful. Their value is not in the idea itself, but the perfect timing and execution.
Airbnb是一個(gè)非常棒的公司, 他們的idea很天才, 但是已經(jīng)有數(shù)十家甚至上百家其他的公司已經(jīng)試過他們這條路并失敗了或者沒他們那么成功. 他們的價(jià)值不是idea本身, 而且完美的時(shí)機(jī)和執(zhí)行力.
Friendster came before Facebook and Orkut. Remember ICQ and MSN? How about Whatsapp? Geocities and Xoom made it possible to publish a homepage. WordPress was just an improvement on that original idea. Just like Tumblr is the new WordPress and Squarespace is the new Tumblr.
Friendster比f(wàn)acebook和orkut還早. 還記得ICQ和MSN嗎? 或者Whatsapp? Geocities 和 Xoom 讓發(fā)布一個(gè)個(gè)人主頁(yè)成為可能. wordpress只是在他們的idea上面做了一下改進(jìn). 就像Tumblr是一個(gè)新的形式的wordpress, Squarespace又是一個(gè)新的形式tumblr.
The goal isn’t to reinvent the wheel or come up with an idea that no one else has ever come up with. You can be very successful just taking something that someone else failed at and do a better version, at a better time.
其實(shí)目的不是重復(fù)發(fā)明輪子或者想出一個(gè)idea以前從來(lái)沒人想過的, 你其實(shí)可以靠別人失敗的東西, 做一個(gè)更好的版本, 在一個(gè)更好的時(shí)機(jī), 就可以變得非常成功
If it worked for YouTube, Google, Facebook, Whatsapp, AirBnB and Skype, it could work for you.
反正那些大公司都是這么成功的, 不管你信不信, 反正我是信了.
