Most people have heard of MySpace and over 140 million people have their own account.  Growth has been fast and at times crippling to their servers, but at the end of the day, they have still pushed through to become the most visited site on the Interent.

Read the store of that hard road and possibly learn some lessons to prevent the potholes in your road to success:

http://www.baselinemag.com/article2/0,1540,2082921,00.asp