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Andrew Dumont

Personal blog · andrewdumont.me · on HN as andrewdumontstartupscareer

Andrew Dumont's personal blog at andrewdumont.me covers startups and career. Since 2011, 8 different Hacker News readers have linked it 51 times, most often “10 Years in Startupland”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.

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51mentions?
8HN people?
2011–2017first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 23 in 2012

Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

Linked as a post about a Pinterest clone, cited in a thread on the Samwer brothers copying Pinterest. The comment uses it as a reference for the idea that cloning can build traction first.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

Andrew Dumont is an award-winning operator and investor, and author of the memoir If Only: A Memoir of Finding Beauty in a Life Interrupted.

The author on HN?

andrewdumont · 1,220 karma · member since 2011

Tweets @AndrewDumont and blog at AndrewDumont.me.

From their public HN profile, which links to this site.

Most-linked posts?

  1. 10 Years in Startupland
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2017-01-26
  2. Is That Pinterest? Nope, No It’s Not
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2012-01-14

What Hacker News says?

  1. kwamenum86 · 2012-01-15
    The idea is to get traction before the original company can. The idea has already been validated in one market and in theory introducing it to another market will work as well. When the original company is ready to expand to those other markets then they'll have to consider buying the clone. It can work for any type of company really. http://andrewdumont.me/post/15813416151/pinterest-clone-pins...

    Comment linking /post/15813416151/pinterest-clone-pinspire

    on “Pinterest knocked off by Samwer brothers”
  2. jennita · 2013-04-30

    Submitted Avoiding Burnout as a story · 401 points

    HN discussion
  3. andrewdumont · 2012-10-31

    Submitted The Highs and Lows of Side Projects as a story · 106 points

    HN discussion
  4. andrewdumont · 2012-01-14

    Submitted Is That Pinterest? Nope, No It’s Not as a story · 89 points

    HN discussion
  5. andrewdumont · 2012-05-06

    Submitted Doing It Right, Not First as a story · 67 points

    HN discussion
  6. andrewdumont · 2012-12-31

    Submitted How I Made a 26-Hour Day as a story · 60 points

    HN discussion
  7. andrewdumont · 2012-06-23

    Submitted The Role of Business Development at a Startup as a story · 11 points

    HN discussion
  8. andrewdumont · 2011-11-03

    Submitted Tumblr or Wordpress? as a story · 9 points

    HN discussion
  9. tlongren · 2013-10-06

    Submitted Flow as a story · 8 points

    HN discussion
  10. startupriot · 2013-11-06

    Submitted Lessons learned growing our side project as a story · 7 points

    HN discussion
  11. jennita · 2013-07-24

    Submitted Why You Need A Side Project as a story · 5 points

    HN discussion
  12. andrewdumont · 2012-05-21

    Submitted An Argument for Private Beta as a story · 5 points

    HN discussion
  13. andrewdumont · 2013-07-02

    Submitted Build It, But They Won’t Come as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  14. jennita · 2013-05-09

    Submitted Developers, Businesspeople, and Dead Weight as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  15. dohertyjf · 2017-01-26

    Submitted 10 Years in Startupland as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  16. andrewdumont · 2012-08-11

    Submitted Competition vs. Comparables as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  17. andrewdumont · 2012-02-20

    Submitted Academia: The Times They Are A Changin’ as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  18. andrewdumont · 2011-11-30

    Submitted The New Path App Is What an iPhone App Should Be as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  19. andrewdumont · 2011-11-17

    Submitted Employee Stock Options: The Fundamentals as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  20. andrewdumont · 2011-11-05

    Submitted How To Get TechCrunched as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  21. andrewdumont · 2011-10-29

    Submitted Take My Data, You’ve Got a Business To Run as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  22. andrewdumont · 2017-01-31

    Submitted Silicon Valley's Impact on Teens as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  23. andrewdumont · 2017-01-28

    Submitted 10 Years in Startupland as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  24. stevekinney · 2013-07-30

    Submitted Entrepreneurship and the Fallacy of Work-Life Balance as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  25. rie_re · 2013-04-17

    Submitted The Difference Between Sales and Business Development as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  26. andrewdumont · 2013-02-19

    Submitted The Glorification of Busy as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  27. andrewdumont · 2012-06-28

    Submitted Evaluating A Startup Idea as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  28. andrewdumont · 2012-03-01

    Submitted How Valuable Is Revenue For Startups? as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  29. andrewdumont · 2012-02-06

    Submitted The Customer Is Always Wrong as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  30. andrewdumont · 2012-01-03

    Submitted Not All Decisions Can Be Quantitative as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion

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