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		SoftwareMaven on April 30, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: 11+ Years of Kickstarter: MySpace widgets, missing... That's how many years they've been live. Their ideas and initial work go back beyond that.

wpietri on April 30, 2012 [–]

The web is too full of mutant versions for me to easily find the original quote, but I've always loved the line "It took me 20 years to become an overnight success."

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