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Dan Shipper
Personal blog · danshipper.comaistartupswriting
Dan Shipper's personal blog at danshipper.com covers ai, startups and writing. Since 2012, 34 different Hacker News readers have linked it 65 times, most often “How to get your first ten customers (2013)”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (13) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Dan Shipper's essays on selling and startups, such as 'Nothing happens until the sale is made' and 'Selling Umbrellas in a Synagogue', often as reading for perspective.
- Recommended for · 4 comments
- Called an 'awesome post' on making sales that resonated enough to prompt action; recommended for perspective on selling; 'Go read this' essay on choices recomme
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 13 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Dan Shipper is the co-founder and CEO of Every, a media and technology company exploring the future of work with AI. He writes Chain of Thought, a weekly column about AI read by 130,000+ people, and co-hosts The Every Podcast, Every’s flagship interview show about AI and work.
Most-linked posts?
- How to get your first ten customers (2013)8 people · 8 mentions · first linked 2013-07-17
- The Choices Are Fake and the Truth Is All Made Up2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2012-12-28
- Selling Umbrellas in a Synagogue2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2012-10-18
- B2B Is Unsexy, and I Know It2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2012-08-03
- I'm Sure It Will Only Take You A Few Days To Code2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2012-04-04
- Latent serendipity2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2014-10-07
- /2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2013-10-14
- DomainPolish: From MVP To Exit In 6 Months2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2012-03-14
- What Does It Mean To Love What You Do?2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2012-03-18
What Hacker News says?
Your idea is good (52 papers a week). Let me give you a tip to increase your luck. Put some more info about you on your site. I'm not seeing it. If it's there it's to hard to find. Important people might stop by and think "who is this guy and what can he do for me". There is no way to know what exactly you know or are good at. Make it easy for people to connect or bring opportunity to you. Be more like Dan Shipper.…
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on “Scott Adams: How to Be Successful”Submitted This Is 2016 Not 2012 as a story · 364 points
HN discussionThe advice in this post combined with Dan Shipper's awesome post the other day ( http://danshipper.com/nothing-happens-until-the-sale-is-made ) serves as a great blueprint for how to kickstart your startup's sales. Not sure what it was about Dan's post, but it really resonated with me and motivated me to make 8 sales pitches yesterday. Already got 2 replies, one negative, one positive. Point being, if you don't shoo…
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on “The cold emails which got me meetings at Twitter, LinkedIn and GitHub”Submitted How to get your first ten customers (2013) as a story · 314 points
HN discussionVinicius Vacanti of Yipit - http://viniciusvacanti.com/ Dan Shipper - http://danshipper.com/
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on “Few successful entrepreneurs blog”Submitted Here’s what I learned hanging out with Jason Fried as a story · 306 points
HN discussionI should have posted this earlier when people were still reading this thread, but Dan Shipper's "Selling Umbrella's in a Synagogue" is really, really relevant to this http://danshipper.com/selling-umbrellas-in-a-synagogue
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on “I Just Paid Facebook $7”Submitted How to get your first 10 customers as a story · 257 points
HN discussionOnly good content that is tangentially commercial. I would read Dan Shipper's article "Selling Umbrella's in a Synagogue" for perspective on this http://danshipper.com/selling-umbrellas-in-a-synagogue
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on “I Just Paid Facebook $7”Submitted I am a terrible programmer as a story · 245 points
HN discussionYou can still get stuff done! Read: http://danshipper.com/the-choices-are-fake-and-the-truth-is-... . Feel free to email me at dan@danshipper.com if you have questions :)
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on “How I Made $350 In Two Days With Three Pages and Some Payment Code (2011)”Submitted Why I'm Doing It All Wrong as a story · 235 points
HN discussionHey guys great to see an old article of mine like this posted here. For the people who asked, the site is down because I sold it and the new owner neglected to take care of it :( Read about the experience here: http://danshipper.com/110636263 Happy to answer questions about it if you have them.
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on “How I Made $350 In Two Days With Three Pages and Some Payment Code (2011)”Submitted I'm Sure It Will Only Take You A Few Days To Code as a story · 221 points
HN discussionWait, this sounded familiar: http://danshipper.com/b2b-is-unsexy-and-i-know-it
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on “The Enterprise: I’m Not Sexy And I Know It”Submitted Stop Taking Yourself So Seriously as a story · 169 points
HN discussionThanks for the reply zipop I really appreciate the other perspective. That said, you said some things in your response that make me think that the way I wrote my post may have lead you to misinterpret the point I was trying to make. Sorry about that, let me try to rephrase slightly. To be clear: I know how tough it is to teach yourself how to code. When I was teaching myself as a kid there was no StackOverflow, no C…
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on “Sorry Dan Shipper and other coders, you are wrong. ”Submitted Public speaking for introverts as a story · 158 points
HN discussionI'd focus talking to potential customers and building out whatever features make the product "minimally viable" for them. If you're pretty sure you know what they need out of your product (which, unless you have credit card numbers, you probably shouldn't be), get your payment system sorted, throw Google Analytics in, and launch. At that point you can start selling, selling, and selling some more. Dan Shipper wrote…
Comment linking /nothing-happens-until-the-sale-is-made
on “Ask HN: What is necessary for a launch?”Submitted B2B Is Unsexy, and I Know It as a story · 153 points
HN discussionTo the author of this post, see: http://danshipper.com/love-is-right-in-front-of-you
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on “A plain wrong advice: Do What You Love”Submitted How To Build A Blog Readership as a story · 121 points
HN discussionOops, here is the post. http://danshipper.com/nothing-happens-until-the-sale-is-made
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on “Ask HN: How do you hire a freelancer?”Submitted DomainPolish: From MVP To Exit In 6 Months as a story · 107 points
HN discussionI don't think this is true. I've flagged several videos as spam -- they were re-uploads of other videos to capture ad fees -- and have never seen a single one of them removed. The speed of this takedown is probably a coincidence. EDIT: Typo fix. SECOND EDIT: Go read this, if you missed it here on HN: The choices are fake and the truth is all made up http://danshipper.com/the-choices-are-fake-and-the-truth-is-...
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on “YouTube only needs one spam flag to remove a video”Submitted Your Goals Are Holding You Back as a story · 104 points
HN discussionSubmitted Would I do this for 10 years? as a story · 95 points
HN discussionSubmitted How I Made $350 In Two Days With Three Pages and Some Payment Code (2011) as a story · 86 points
HN discussionSubmitted What I learned bootstrapping a 6-figure business from school as a story · 67 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Choices Are Fake and the Truth Is All Made Up as a story · 66 points
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