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Brendan's Reflections

Personal blog · brendansterne.comstartupsaibusiness

Brendan's Reflections is a personal blog at brendansterne.com about startups, ai and business. Since 2013, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 13 times. The last post was in 2019, but the archive is still widely read.

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13mentions?
3HN people?
2013–2018first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 9 in 2013

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

Why HN links it

The only comment does not discuss this blog's writing. It argues with a Paul Graham talk about business risk, so the linked posts' content is not described in the comments.

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.

AI, Robotics, Product Management

What Hacker News says?

  1. sah2ed · 2018-09-02
    > It's true in any business where the primary risk is understanding what to build and not how to build it. I really want to believe that your statement is true, but it appears to be eliding 4 dimensions into 2. All businesses, regardless of size or type or industry, will run the risk of going out of business. Let's call this market risk [0]. Market risk is to businesses as dying is to humans, with the small differen…

    Comment linking /2015/10/07/technical-risk-vs-market-risk-part-i/amp/

    on “A Conversation with Paul Graham [video]”
  2. bsterne · 2013-07-11

    Submitted Do the right thing, wait to get fired as a story · 351 points

    HN discussion
  3. bsterne · 2014-04-10

    Submitted The Original iPhone was a Minimum Viable Product (MVP) as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  4. bsterne · 2013-12-22

    Submitted Why people hate new ideas as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  5. bsterne · 2013-12-02

    Submitted Google’s Principles of Innovation, according to Marissa Mayer as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  6. bsterne · 2013-10-29

    Submitted Be Vulnerable as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  7. bsterne · 2013-10-28

    Submitted Hire people you would be willing to work for as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  8. bsterne · 2015-10-07

    Submitted Technical Risk vs. Market Risk as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  9. Mister_Snuggles · 2014-01-11

    Submitted Do the right thing, Wait to get fired as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  10. bsterne · 2013-12-19

    Submitted Revealed: The 4 Reasons Amazon Web Services Got Approved as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  11. bsterne · 2013-12-12

    Submitted Entrepreneurship is a coin-flipping biathlon as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  12. bsterne · 2013-11-21

    Submitted Make your press release first? as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  13. bsterne · 2013-11-12

    Submitted JavaScript in the Data Center? as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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