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Dave Z

Personal blog · zohrob.com/posts · on HN as dzohrobstartupscareer

Dave Z's personal blog at zohrob.com covers startups and career. Since 2009, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-08-04, and you can follow it by feed.

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2009–2012first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 2 in 2009

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Why HN links it

HN readers cite this email delivery guide series, mainly Part 2 on anti-spam technologies, which one commenter calls more useful than Part 1 on running a dedicated mail server.

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dzohrob · 794 karma · member since 2007

previously cofounder and ceo, chartable.com (acquired by spotify) also previously @ angellist, hotornot, etc. http://zohrob.com https://twitter.com/dzohrob email: username at gmail

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What Hacker News says?

  1. Part 2 is a lot more useful ( http://zohrob.com/posts/entrepreneurs-guide-to-email-deliver... ). Part 1 basically says, if you want to run a mail server, use a dedicated IP for it. Part 2 actually goes into the anti-SPAM technologies that will make your messages appear as non-SPAM. One thing that I would add to the section on SPF: don't say that any mail not coming from your domain is SPAM. It's a bad plan. Use it a…

    Comment linking /posts/entrepreneurs-guide-to-email-delivery-part-2.html

    on “Entrepreneur's Guide to Email Delivery”
  2. Submitted Entrepreneur's Guide to Email Delivery as a story · 35 points

    HN discussion
  3. Submitted Don't put your career in stealth mode as a story · 16 points

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  4. Submitted Talent is the limiting factor in startup growth as a story · 3 points

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  5. Submitted The death of the master builder as a story · 1 points

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