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Chris Sacca
Personal blog · whatisleft.org/lookie_herestartupsbusiness
Chris Sacca writes WHATISLEFT.ORG, a personal blog at whatisleft.org about startups and business. Since 2007, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 10 times, most often “Chris Sacca: Big Company, Small Company”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Chris Sacca's posts for his own explanation of why certain founders succeeded, and as a lesson on customer retention mistakes made by large companies.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Chris Sacca: Big Company, Small Company2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2008-02-11
- "I loved that I couldn't take the Auctomatics to a bar for a company meeting."2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2008-03-28
What Hacker News says?
Why not read their blogs? Chris Sacca writes it in his own words why... http://www.whatisleft.org/lookie_here/2008/03/thanks-to-auct... ...and elsewhere. Basicially, to me, it reads because they were passionate about what they were doing (passion), would not let anything stop them (ambition), were able to hack/get things done quickly and efficiently and had some great previous accomplishments (talent, focus, custome…
Comment linking /lookie_here/2008/03/thanks-to-aucto.html
on “The Year That Made Me: Kulveer Taggar”Submitted Chris Sacca: Big Company, Small Company as a story · 41 points
HN discussionThey (and similar companies) should read http://www.whatisleft.org/lookie_here/2008/02/big-company-s-... (and similar) and learn?
Comment linking /lookie_here/2008/02/big-company-s-1.html
on “How not to do customer retention”Submitted "I loved that I couldn't take the Auctomatics to a bar for a company meeting." as a story · 25 points
HN discussionSubmitted Chris Sacca: Couldn't be happier for Omnisio as a story · 14 points
HN discussionSubmitted Hints for proposing deals . . . (or, "My word, this inbox is a mess") as a story · 11 points
HN discussionSubmitted Startup School – An Inspiring Room Full of Hackers as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Give again for more chances to win as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Chris Sacca: You have a pitch for me? Great as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Some Thoughts On What The Obama Election Meant To Me as a story · 1 points
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