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Derek Flanzraich

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Derek Flanzraich's personal blog at derekflanzraich.com covers startups, business and health. Since 2010, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 22 times, most often “The Execution or The Idea? Here's How the Greatest Minds in Tech Answer.”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.

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22mentions?
4HN people?
2010–2012first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 9 in 2010

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

Why HN links it

The only comment is a 2012 Ask HN hiring post for a technical leader at Greatist, and it does not discuss this blog's writing. The linked posts' subjects cannot be determined from the comments.

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.

Derek Flanzraich is a mission-driven, entrepreneurial leader passionate about making health more accessible and affordable. Today, he runs Healthyish and writes a weekly newsletter called 5HT. Previously, he founded Greatist (successful) and Ness (not).

Most-linked posts?

  1. The Execution or The Idea? Here's How the Greatest Minds in Tech Answer.
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2010-08-10
  2. I’m Not Looking for a Technical Co-Founder, I’m Looking for a Technical Leader
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2012-02-06

What Hacker News says?

  1. NYC, New York Greatist is looking for a technical leader. Passionate about building products that help inspire & inform the world to make healthy choices? We’re looking for a brilliant technologist with passion, vision, strong people skills, and killer dev chops excited about making a genuine and lasting difference in the health & fitness space. Someone who builds stuff for fun that’s been successful and (ideally, t…

    Comment linking /2012/02/looking-for-technical-leader/

    on “Ask HN: Who is Hiring? (March 2012)”
  2. Submitted Startup Fitness: An Entrepreneur's Guide to Working Out as a story · 93 points

    HN discussion
  3. Submitted Lessons Learned After Year One As a Startup Founder as a story · 63 points

    HN discussion
  4. Submitted How Working Out Makes Us Better Entrepreneurs as a story · 62 points

    HN discussion
  5. Submitted Startup Fitness Advice From Battle-Hardened Entrepreneurs as a story · 25 points

    HN discussion
  6. Submitted The Execution or The Idea? Here's How the Greatest Minds in Tech Answer. as a story · 23 points

    HN discussion
  7. Submitted Build Empires, Not Businesses as a story · 18 points

    HN discussion
  8. Submitted How I Graduated from Harvard, Turned Down Google, Got a Job Through Twitter as a story · 16 points

    HN discussion
  9. Submitted How To Rule the Interwebz (The 81 Must-Follow Tech Blogs) as a story · 15 points

    HN discussion
  10. Submitted I’m Not Looking for a Technical Co-Founder, I’m Looking for a Technical Leader as a story · 12 points

    HN discussion
  11. Submitted Why Steve Jobs is a Better Wizard Than Harry Potter as a story · 12 points

    HN discussion
  12. Submitted Ditch the library and work at Starbucks as a story · 7 points

    HN discussion
  13. Submitted What Playing Bejeweled Taught Me About Startups as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  14. Submitted The Ultimate (New) Guide to Mastering Gmail as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  15. Submitted The Idea or The Execution? as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  16. Submitted How To Disrupt The Gym Business Using Technology & Community as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  17. Submitted Love Every Second of What You Do as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  18. Submitted Unexpected Leadership Lessons from Walt Disney as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  19. Submitted Netflix Hasn’t Won the Great Digital TV War Yet: We Have as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  20. Submitted How to: disrupt television as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  21. Submitted TV Everywhere & Cable Co's Getting Their Sh*t Together as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  22. Submitted 8 Awesome Ways to Destroy a TV as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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