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Dalton Caldwell
Personal blog · dalton.substack.comstartupsbusiness
Dalton Caldwell writes Dalton's Substack, a personal blog at dalton.substack.com about startups and business. Since 2020, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 10 times, most often “Startup Childhood”. The last post was in 2023, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Dalton Caldwell's startup advice, such as a letter to himself from 2008 with blunt guidance on cutting staff deeply and once to reach profitability.
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.
Personal newsletter by Dalton Caldwell, founder of Standard Capital, formerly MD @ Y Combinator http://standardcap.com.
Most-linked posts?
- Startup Childhood2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-12-22
- Letter to Myself in Late 20082 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-03-25
What Hacker News says?
Dagnabit. Here we go again - this is a fantastic, pragmatic amendment to those notes -> https://dalton.substack.com/p/letter-to-myself-in-late-2008?... For a taste: "Doing multiple small layoffs is a form of cascading failure. Do one layoff, but much much deeper than seems correct. Do it decisively. Do it so that you get profitable. In your case that is something like a 70% cut, not a 5-10% cut. Yes you read that ri…
Comment linking /p/letter-to-myself-in-late-2008?s=r
on “Y Combinator's Message to Founders”Submitted Letter to Myself in Late 2008 as a story · 311 points
HN discussionSubmitted How YC will be funding the S20 batch as a story · 150 points
HN discussionSubmitted Letter to Myself in Late 2008 (2020) as a story · 59 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Three Questions: Culture Biosciences as a story · 14 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Three Questions: Pyka as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The frontier tech prisoners dilemma as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Startup Childhood as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Startup Childhood as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Three Questions: Feather as a story · 1 points
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