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blog.ledwards.com is a personal blog at blog.ledwards.com about startups and business. Since 2013, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times, most often “A Follow-Up to the Olin / Stanford Startup Density Comparison”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.

6mentions?
4HN people?
2013–2017first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 3 in 2013

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

Why HN links it

Linked for an analysis of whether Olin College produces startup founders at a higher rate than Stanford. The only comment is from the author, who points to a follow-up on methods and controls.

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.

Most-linked posts?

  1. A Follow-Up to the Olin / Stanford Startup Density Comparison
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2017-09-07

What Hacker News says?

  1. Hey I'm Lee, the author of this article. I think there are a lot of fair callouts about controlling for major, sample size, selection bias, and others, so I collected my response to those concerns here: https://blog.ledwards.com/methods-for-determining-startup-de... and linked to this follow-up article at the top of the original. Really appreciate the comments and feedback, and happy to hear more. I'm sure this won'…

    Comment linking /methods-for-determining-startup-density-c9e2a4c2c283

    on “Olin College Produces Founders at Five Times the Rate of Stanford”
  2. Submitted Olin College Produces Founders at Five Times the Rate of Stanford as a story · 219 points

    HN discussion
  3. Submitted Meetup Golf - a game I play to keep myself from networking wrong as a story · 99 points

    HN discussion
  4. Submitted In Defense of Coders as a story · 10 points

    HN discussion
  5. Submitted How Pivotal Tracker Could Be Killing Your Startup as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  6. Submitted A Follow-Up to the Olin / Stanford Startup Density Comparison as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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