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Dan Norris
Personal blog · dannorris.mestartupscareer
Dan Norris's personal blog at dannorris.me covers startups and career. Since 2020, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 11 times, most often “Inappropriate Conduct or Falling in Love at Work – What Happened at Black Hops”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-03-02, and you can follow it by feed.
Serial entrepreneur, author of The 7 Day Startup (70K+ copies, 13 languages), and founder of WP Curve (sold to GoDaddy) and Black Hops Brewing (Australia's #1 craft beer). Now building software with AI on the Gold Coast.
Most-linked posts?
- Inappropriate Conduct or Falling in Love at Work – What Happened at Black Hops2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-05-27
What Hacker News says?
Dan with a partner started a WordPress support service. Pay a monthly fee and receive as much support as you need. Dan had started multiple startups without much success but this one took off. GoDaddy purchased the company making both partners multi-millionaires. He wrote a book on what he learned from startups from knowing both failures and success. He took the earnings and bought a small coffee house chain (don't…
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on “Judo Bank tricked me into giving away my business ($10M value) also my home”Submitted Signs that a business idea will probably fail as a story · 287 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why it's almost always a good thing when staff quit as a story · 22 points
HN discussionSubmitted Judo Bank tricked me into giving away my business ($10M value) also my home as a story · 12 points
HN discussionSubmitted Inappropriate Conduct or Falling in Love at Work – What Happened at Black Hops as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted I fucking hate myself as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Dan Norris – How to replace your bookkeeper with AI as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted You're right: Lessons learned vibe coding our asset management system as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Partnerships vs. Solopreneurship and Partnership Do's and Don'ts as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted There is no “bouncing back” as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Dan Norris: 15 Lessons – #12 – There is no blueprint as a story · 1 points
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