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Dave Jafari

Personal blog · blog.davejafari.comstartupsbusiness

Dave Jafari writes Tumblr, a personal blog at blog.davejafari.com about startups and business. Since 2010, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 37 times, most often “Sparkmuse Post-mortem”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.

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37mentions?
3HN people?
2010–2013first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 30 in 2012

Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

Linked in a thread on launching simply and validating startup ideas. The one comment argues that contacting potential customers validates an idea better than asking whether they would pay.

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.

Most-linked posts?

  1. Sparkmuse Post-mortem
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2011-11-05

What Hacker News says?

  1. keesj · 2013-04-06
    Isn't contacting your potential customers a better idea to validate and get feedback on your idea? It may take more effort to reach them, but even that process is helpful in validating your idea as you'll have to find your customers sooner or later anyway. Also, validating your idea by asking people whether they'd pay for it is a common mistake in customer development. People are bad at predicting their own behavior…

    Comment linking /sparkmuse-post-mortem

    on “Core, Simple, Launch”
  2. netmau5 · 2012-03-05

    Submitted This Morning I Didn't Go To Work as a story · 94 points

    HN discussion
  3. netmau5 · 2012-05-28

    Submitted Why our startup is selling services as a story · 27 points

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  4. netmau5 · 2012-04-27

    Submitted Name your price for an Elevation Dock, help our startup as a story · 11 points

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  5. netmau5 · 2011-12-25

    Submitted My Letter to the Senate on PIPA as a story · 8 points

    HN discussion
  6. netmau5 · 2012-06-08

    Submitted The Most Echoed Seth Godin Posts as a story · 7 points

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  7. netmau5 · 2012-05-06

    Submitted Are You Peeing Enough? as a story · 7 points

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  8. netmau5 · 2012-06-19

    Submitted Dear marketer looking for a technical cofounder as a story · 6 points

    HN discussion
  9. netmau5 · 2012-04-14

    Submitted Usability is a Feature as a story · 3 points

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  10. netmau5 · 2012-04-10

    Submitted It's Probably Your Fault as a story · 3 points

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  11. netmau5 · 2012-03-12

    Submitted #1: I'm Not a Designer, I Just Pretend to Be as a story · 3 points

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  12. netmau5 · 2012-02-28

    Submitted Don't abstract business away from development as a story · 3 points

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  13. netmau5 · 2012-08-11

    Submitted Obama's Mailing List and Unsubscription Rate Optimization as a story · 2 points

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  14. netmau5 · 2012-07-24

    Submitted Predatory Marketing as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  15. netmau5 · 2012-07-23

    Submitted Trader's Game: Freelancer Negotiations as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  16. netmau5 · 2012-07-06

    Submitted Startup Month in Review #4 as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  17. netmau5 · 2012-06-05

    Submitted Startup Month in Review #3 as a story · 2 points

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  18. netmau5 · 2012-06-02

    Submitted You're Not Trying Hard Enough as a story · 2 points

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  19. netmau5 · 2012-01-18

    Submitted Corporate Freedom Fighters as a story · 2 points

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  20. netmau5 · 2011-12-18

    Submitted Holiday Hack: Christmas Planner as a story · 2 points

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  21. netmau5 · 2011-11-05

    Submitted Sparkmuse Post-mortem as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  22. netmau5 · 2011-01-07

    Submitted Experiences using Play Framework for Java as a story · 2 points

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  23. netmau5 · 2012-08-05

    Submitted Pre-Traction Distraction as a story · 1 points

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  24. netmau5 · 2012-07-25

    Submitted The OSX Business Model as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  25. netmau5 · 2012-07-13

    Submitted The Death of Legends as a story · 1 points

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  26. netmau5 · 2012-06-25

    Submitted Surprising Facts About Happiness as a story · 1 points

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  27. netmau5 · 2012-05-24

    Submitted #8: We Have Our Idea as a story · 1 points

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  28. netmau5 · 2012-05-12

    Submitted The Round Table: a Thought Experiment for Idea Evaluation as a story · 1 points

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  29. netmau5 · 2012-05-03

    Submitted Startup Report #2 as a story · 1 points

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  30. netmau5 · 2012-04-20

    Submitted Adwords Kills Low-Margin Ideas as a story · 1 points

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