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Building a Software Company
Personal blog · nukemanbill.blogspot.comstartupsbusinessculture
Building a Software Company is a personal blog at nukemanbill.blogspot.com about startups, business and culture. Since 2008, 11 different Hacker News readers have linked it 16 times, most often “How to sell your software for $20,000”. The last post was in 2011, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (7) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Commenters link this blog's posts on building and selling niche software, such as selling software for $20,000, finding niches, hiring, and equity. One reader found it helpful inspiration.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 7 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Rantings of an Entrepreneur
Most-linked posts?
- How to sell your software for $20,0005 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2008-06-27
- Building a Software Company 3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2008-06-28
- How to become a cynic 2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2011-02-24
- How to hire an idiot (from the 'How to sell your software for $20,000' guy)2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2008-08-01
What Hacker News says?
Interesting note on the sidebar: "Although successful I guess, I'm still trying to decide if it was really worth the hassle." His first post goes into a little more detail on this: http://nukemanbill.blogspot.com/2008/05/first.html
Comment linking /2008/05/first.html
on “How to sell your software for $20,000”Submitted How to hire an idiot as a story · 407 points
HN discussionSounds like you might have befriended "A VP OF A FRIGGIN' $100 MILLION COMPANY" http://nukemanbill.blogspot.com/2008/07/how-to-hire-idiot.ht...
Comment linking /2008/07/how-to-hire-idiot.html
on “Ask HN: My co-founder sux. What can I do ?”Submitted How to hire an idiot (from the 'How to sell your software for $20,000' guy) as a story · 220 points
HN discussion100% agree with this. I worked on Wall Street for almost three years, and ended up with a good idea for mortgage bond analytics software. Most jobs out there use some antiquated, terrible, but really expensive niche software. Most people would love to upgrade to something better, but there's often only one company in that particular space. The following article provided some helpful inspiration for me. Hope you enjo…
Comment linking /2008/06/how-to-sell-your-software-for-20000.html
on “Beg HN: Share some ideas.”Submitted How to sell your software for $20,000 as a story · 125 points
HN discussionThat reminds me of this article: http://nukemanbill.blogspot.com/2008/06/how-to-sell-your-sof... where the author discusses finding niches to sell big dollar software. Good stuff.
Comment linking /2008/06/how-to-sell-your-software-for-20000.html
on “From homeless drug user to millionaire”Submitted Government Whore as a story · 3 points
HN discussionI'd offer only commission on sales (perhaps add in profit sharing if he'll do other work in addition to sales -- you don't want to penalize him for those parts of his job which do not involve selling), that way his performance will be rewarded directly. It's your company and the equity is yours. 100% It doesn't belong to someone you pay to work for you. He might have been "very helpful", but he's not risking everyth…
Comment linking /2008_05_01_archive.html
on “Ask HN: How Much Equity to Offer First Employee?”Submitted How to Become a Cynic [2008] as a story · 2 points
HN discussionPart 2: http://nukemanbill.blogspot.com/2008/05/how-to-become-cynic-...
Comment linking /2008/05/how-to-become-cynic-part-2.html
on “How to Become a Cynic [2008]”Submitted How to sell your software for $20k (2008) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionYou're welcome! I think I see your problem in 3, (2 isn't too hard, you can buy your DNA sequence for ~$200). There are a lot of logistics companies which may have valuable data but can't mine them properly (especially the smaller, not Fedex or DHL). I don't know which industries interests you, but there are some industry sectors like logistics, agriculture or finance which heavily rely on new insights from their da…
Comment linking /2008/06/how-to-sell-your-software-for-20000.html
on “Ask HN: Looking for ideas...”Submitted Building a Software Company as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to become a cynic as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Building a Software Company as a story · 1 points
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