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Sarah Tavel
Personal blog · adventurista.comstartupsbusiness
Sarah Tavel's personal blog at adventurista.com covers startups and business. Since 2011, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 7 times. The last post was in 2015, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers cite Sarah Tavel's posts on recurring-revenue debt, e-commerce's share of retail sales, and Groupon's savings-focused copy. The comments cite or link them as sources rather than judging them.
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.
Old school blogger...
What Hacker News says?
I believe this article is focused on a different type of debt - "recurring revenue securitization" (focused on companies w/ a SaSS business model). This type of financial instrument is different from a traditional venture / bank debt instrument in a couple ways: 1. it can be more favorable to startups by making payments a % of revenue instead of a fixed amount (ala ISA's) 2. the lender can earn higher interest by "s…
Comment linking /2009/01/true-cost-of-venture-debt.html](http://www.adventurista.com/2009/01/true-cost-of-venture-debt.html)
on “Debt is coming to the tech industry”Submitted Prediction: Facebook is no longer a viable marketing strategy for startups as a story · 4 points
HN discussion"According to comScore, non-travel/auto/gas/food e-commerce sales represented just 7.1% of total retail sales in the US in Q2 2010. But, significantly, online sales have grown at an annualized rate of 9.7% since 2006 (vs. the 2.3% annualized decline in total retail sales over that same period, which includes the Great Recession). Leading online retailers, like Amazon.com, are growing even faster—30% per year for the…
Comment linking /2010/09/bessemers-top-10-laws-of-ecommerce.html
on “E-commerce is still less than 5% of retail sales -- huge growth opportunity”Submitted Being Coachable as a story · 2 points
HN discussionTechCrunch attributed Groupon's early success to their clever social engineering. This NYT Writer focuses on the clever copy, but I tend to agree with Sarah Tavel who says its all about the savings: http://www.adventurista.com/2011/04/stop-calling-groupon-soc... It would be interesting to test. Write some dry copy, make the "tipping point" 1 coupon and see if it sells less than the funny/social counterpart. You real…
Comment linking /2011/04/stop-calling-groupon-social-commerce.html
on “Groupon Counts on Writers and Editors to Build Its Audience”Submitted Accomplishment Arbitrage as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Holding your hand to the fire as a story · 1 points
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