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Andy Weissman

Personal blog · blog.aweissman.comstartupsbusiness

Andy Weissman writes aweissman.com, a personal blog at blog.aweissman.com about startups and business. Since 2010, 25 different Hacker News readers have linked it 29 times, most often “Between Thought and Expression Lies A Lifetime”. The last post was in 2024, but the archive is still widely read.

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29mentions?
25HN people?
2010–2022first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 6 in 2015

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Most-linked posts?

  1. Between Thought and Expression Lies A Lifetime
    3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2011-01-05
  2. No Stack Startups
    3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2015-05-06
  3. Everything about venture capital you can learn from music lyrics
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2019-10-28

What Hacker News says?

  1. akkartik · 2015-05-07
    I was thinking about Meerkat and DataSift last night when I read about the seemingly idiotic idea of "no-stack startups": http://blog.aweissman.com/2015/05/no-stack-startups.html . Might as well call them "no-moat startups". Edit : already submitted here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9500424

    Comment linking /2015/05/no-stack-startups.html

    on “Meerkat Founder on Getting the Kill Call from Twitter”
  2. kcurtin · 2011-11-28

    Submitted The Golden Age of Internet Marketing? as a story · 48 points

    HN discussion
  3. 7Figures2Commas · 2014-04-16
    I agree with the notion that "a disruptive bank does not look like a bank" but I think you oversimplify the purpose of a bank. Today's banks provide a variety of services to a variety of different customers with different needs. Lending is just one of them. Providing a variety of services well as an integrated business is very, very difficult for banks today. That has created opportunity for smaller companies and up…

    Comment linking /2013/01/banking-and-unbundling.html

    on “Startup Banking’s Looming Leviathan”
  4. herdrick · 2010-02-10

    Submitted Word of mouth isn't viral as a story · 21 points

    HN discussion
  5. 7Figures2Commas · 2014-04-16
    It's funny. This post, and the post it references[1], gloat about technology but they don't speak much at all about the value provided to bank customers, which, by the way, are a very diverse group. It's very "if you spend countless of millions of dollars to build it, they will deposit." I don't think anyone would argue that technology doesn't have the potential to be used as a competitive differentiator in the cons…

    Comment linking /2013/01/banking-and-unbundling.html

    on “Startup Banking’s Looming Leviathan”
  6. gwintrob · 2015-05-06

    Submitted No Stack Startups as a story · 10 points

    HN discussion
  7. j2d2j2d2 · 2010-09-25

    Submitted Maximizing Serendipity as a story · 8 points

    HN discussion
  8. aditya · 2010-01-30

    Submitted Why the First Round Capital Entrepreneur's Exchange fund is good as a story · 6 points

    HN discussion
  9. ghosh · 2013-08-12

    Submitted Fearless as a story · 5 points

    HN discussion
  10. aditya · 2010-04-14

    Submitted Andy Weissman on opportunities created by platform changes as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  11. danecjensen · 2014-02-12

    Submitted Amazon Web Services as Metaphor as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  12. smalter · 2012-01-31

    Submitted Information Does Not Want to Be Free as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  13. tosh · 2021-01-18

    Submitted You'll Figure It Out as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  14. vinnyglennon · 2019-11-17

    Submitted Everything about venture capital – – – you can learn from music lyrics as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  15. Amorymeltzer · 2019-10-28

    Submitted Everything about venture capital you can learn from music lyrics as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  16. kareemm · 2015-06-02

    Submitted No Stack Startups as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  17. philco · 2013-03-07

    Submitted The Introverts Dilemma as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  18. j_col · 2012-08-31

    Submitted The Great Fragmentation as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  19. malte · 2011-01-05

    Submitted Between Thought and Expression Lies A Lifetime as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  20. tosh · 2022-01-17

    Submitted What Time Does the Bus Come? as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  21. jhatax · 2018-02-13

    Submitted Addition by Subtraction as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  22. peterwallhead · 2015-05-07

    Submitted No Stack Startups as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  23. bootload · 2015-05-06

    Submitted No Stack Startups as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  24. ggonweb · 2015-02-13

    Submitted The Chaos Theory of Startups as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  25. jalter789 · 2014-07-15

    Submitted Sometimes Wrong as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  26. draegtun · 2013-10-27

    Submitted Between Thought and Expression Lies A Lifetime [2011] as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  27. nikunjk · 2013-02-21

    Submitted Into The Mystic as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  28. kcurtin · 2011-11-23

    Submitted The Expression Step as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  29. antr · 2011-08-03

    Submitted Everybody wants to be special here (In praise of pseudonymity) as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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