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Elizabeth Yin

Personal blog · elizabethyin.comstartupsbusiness

Elizabeth Yin's personal blog at elizabethyin.com covers startups and business. Since 2018, 13 different Hacker News readers have linked it 18 times, most often “Annoying Things that VCs say or ask (and how to think about them)”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-04-24, and you can follow it by feed.

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18mentions?
13HN people?
2018–2023first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 7 in 2020

Most-linked posts?

  1. Annoying Things that VCs say or ask (and how to think about them)
    3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2019-05-20
  2. Why marketing is eating the world
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-07-01

What Hacker News says?

  1. Submitted Why I don’t usually meet startups in person (2019) as a story · 128 points

    HN discussion
  2. Submitted The Rise of the Decentralized Startup as a story · 87 points

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  3. Submitted How I raised my $11.5M VC fund as a story · 40 points

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  4. Submitted An Analysis of Going from $0 to $1m Revenue in 1 Month as a story · 19 points

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  5. Submitted Thank You, Tony as a story · 16 points

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  6. Submitted Reflections on Turning 40 as a story · 3 points

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  7. Submitted Why I can no longer lift laundry detergent (2020) as a story · 3 points

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  8. Submitted Annoying Things that VCs say or ask (and how to think about them) as a story · 3 points

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  9. Submitted Why marketing is eating the world as a story · 3 points

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  10. Submitted Annoying Things that VCS say or ask (and how to think about them) as a story · 3 points

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  11. Submitted I’m (still) not crushing it as a story · 2 points

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  12. Submitted Why marketing is eating the world as a story · 2 points

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  13. Submitted How do VCS make money? as a story · 2 points

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  14. Submitted Annoying Things that VCS say or ask as a story · 2 points

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  15. Submitted Why VCs are obsessed with Unicorn companies? (HINT: let’s do the math together) as a story · 1 points

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  16. Submitted Operating in Tough Times as a story · 1 points

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  17. Submitted The rise of the global first startup as a story · 1 points

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  18. Submitted To Safe or Not to Safe? as a story · 1 points

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