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1517 Fund
Company blog · 1517fund.com/poststartupsbusiness
1517 Fund is the company blog at 1517fund.com, writing about startups and business. Since 2020, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 7 times. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link 1517 Fund's site for its portfolio of backed dropouts, students and sci-fi science, and for a Michael Gibson article on Stoicism and Stockdale's prison experience. Comments only cite or link these pages.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
1517 Fund is an anti-establishment educational institution and VC firm backing founders at the earliest stages of their careers and companies.
What Hacker News says?
This is a significant misreading of Stockdale's actual experience. Michael Gibson wrote an article on the same situations: https://www.1517fund.com/post/the-inadequacies-of-the-invinc... -------- The truth was, despite the consolation it gave him, Stockdale never thought Stoicism would help his tortured cellmates. He never tapped Epictetus’s maxims in code through the prison walls to his friends. “You soon realized…
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on “A Stoic Philosopher in a Hanoi Prison: I am the captain of my soul”Submitted The New 95 (2017) as a story · 44 points
HN discussionSo what have they done in 3 years? Not to be dismissive I tried looking through their portfolio. https://www.1517fund.com/portfolio
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on “The New 95 (2017)”Submitted 1517 Medici Project – grants for young founders as a story · 3 points
HN discussionIt's more likely to pivot to lead-gen for the VCs that back this play https://www.1517fund.com Maybe they use it to be first in line for the business that have "it"
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on “Founder Grants: Fund a startup without giving up equity”Submitted Zero to $3.4B: Luminar Goes Public as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Fund: Funding Dropouts, Renegades and Deep Tech as a story · 1 points
HN discussion