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Chris Yeh
Personal blog · chrisyeh.blogspot.combusinessstartups
Chris Yeh writes Adventures in Capitalism, a personal blog at chrisyeh.blogspot.com about business and startups. Since 2008, 20 different Hacker News readers have linked it 141 times, most often “Adventures in Capitalism: Everything I know, I learned from someone else”. The last post was in 2019, but the archive is still widely read.
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Why HN links it
Comments link Chris Yeh's blog for a 2006 list of reasons to hate San Francisco, cited against a critical article about the city. No comment judges the writing itself.
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.
Thoughts on business, entrepreneurship, and life from a Silicon Valley entrepreneur and writer.
Most-linked posts?
- Adventures in Capitalism: Everything I know, I learned from someone else2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2013-07-29
- How To Fight Sexism in Silicon Valley2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2012-04-16
What Hacker News says?
Scientists have already done great work in this area. "Success" doesn't bring happiness: http://chrisyeh.blogspot.com/2005/12/meaning-of-life.html Here's the money quote: "In the book, Deci talks about a study which discovered that humans have six basic aspirations. The first three, the extrinsic aspirations, are to be rich, famous, and good-looking. (Actually, rich/powerful and famous/well-liked, but why ruin a eup…
Comment linking /2005/12/meaning-of-life.html
on “Late bloomer, not a loser. (I hope) ”Submitted The Reason The Rich & Famous Commit Suicide as a story · 78 points
HN discussionThe odds are always against entrepreneurs: http://chrisyeh.blogspot.com/2010/07/entrepreneurship-is-abo... "Let me reiterate--you have a less than 50/50 chance of founding a successful startup, even if you manage to raise VC every time (which is not a forgone conclusion) and even if you devote essentially your entire professional life to it." On the other hand, if you enjoy entrepreneurship, don't let the lack of su…
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on “Late bloomer, not a loser. (I hope) ”Submitted Impatience Kills Startups as a story · 69 points
HN discussionYes, I know. But there is nothing in the Athor's atricle that warrants the personal/character attack. To illustrate, lets take a look at this list of top 10 reasons to hate SF, from another author circa 2006: Top Reasons Why I Hate San Francisco: 1. NO LEFT TURNS 2. The lack of parking 3. The plentiful supply of homeless people 4. Hills, hills, hills--good for views, bad for safety 5. Frequent events/protests/parade…
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on “Peter Shih Complains About the Shithole City He's Forced to Make His Millions In”Submitted Wealth anorexia a.k.a. hating yourself because you're not Larry Ellison as a story · 58 points
HN discussionI've written a lot about how one needs to be realistic in the entrepreneurial life. Here's just a few examples: http://chrisyeh.blogspot.com/2012/05/entrepreneurial-success... http://chrisyeh.blogspot.com/2010/07/entrepreneurship-is-abo... If you define success as building a billion-dollar company, you'll almost certainly be disappointed. Billion-dollar startups usually come once every few years. But I also want peo…
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on “Entrepreneurs, The Clock Is Ticking On Your Career ”Submitted Reverse Demo Day: Angels Pitch Entrepreneurs as a story · 56 points
HN discussionSubmitted The number that explains Constant Contact's success as a story · 55 points
HN discussionSubmitted Entrepreneurs, The Clock Is Ticking On Your Career as a story · 38 points
HN discussionSubmitted Leveraging the Chinese Landlord Principle as a story · 37 points
HN discussionSubmitted What busy professionals and the working poor have in common as a story · 33 points
HN discussionSubmitted Marissa Mayer and Yahoo's telecommuting: Right motivation, wrong execution as a story · 31 points
HN discussionSubmitted Jeremy Lin, Women in VC, and the Bigotry of Pattern Matching as a story · 30 points
HN discussionSubmitted How To Fight Sexism in Silicon Valley as a story · 27 points
HN discussionSubmitted Did Peter Thiel Make The Single Best Investment In History? as a story · 25 points
HN discussionSubmitted Bye Bye Bitcoin Bubble as a story · 18 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Death of the Feed (what I read and why) as a story · 13 points
HN discussionSubmitted Build Product, Not PowerPoint (Even If You're Non-Technical) as a story · 13 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why Jive is a dinosaur & Dropbox is the future as a story · 12 points
HN discussionSubmitted Can We Ever Have Too Many Startups? as a story · 11 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Farther You Go, The Tougher It Gets as a story · 9 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why You Can't Remember Yahoo's 1st CEO as a story · 8 points
HN discussionSubmitted How do you choose between job and family? as a story · 8 points
HN discussionSubmitted Will Angel Crash And VC Have Its Revenge? as a story · 8 points
HN discussionSubmitted The $2,000 Customer Service Call as a story · 7 points
HN discussionSubmitted An Entrepreneurial Success Story as a story · 7 points
HN discussionSubmitted Sexism in tech is like an onion: Why PyCon matters & why we need to change as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why software has only just begun to eat the world as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why Posers Are An Inevitable Part Of Silicon Valley (And Lead To Crashes) as a story · 6 points
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