Top all-time · #18895
Forerunner Ventures
Company blog · forerunnerventures.com/perspectivesbusinessstartups
Forerunner Ventures is the company blog at forerunnerventures.com, writing about business and startups. Since 2021, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times, most often “From Network Effects to Cognitive Effects: The New Rules for Platform Dominance”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
The linked page is the homepage of Forerunner Ventures, a venture capital firm. The only comment is a bare list of other VC firm links from a thread on YC companies that did well, with no comment on the writing.
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.
Forerunner is an early-stage venture firm that invests in founders with the vision to define entire categories and the courage to own the totality of what they build from the start.
Most-linked posts?
- From Network Effects to Cognitive Effects: The New Rules for Platform Dominance2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-11-21
What Hacker News says?
Went through my Pinboard to extract all these: - https://797capital.com/ - https://www.indexventures.com/ - https://www.sparkcapital.com/ - https://www.hcp.com/ - https://hvflabs.com/ - https://www.republiccapital.co/ - https://plus.vc/ - https://www.rarebreed.vc/ - https://www.dragonfly.xyz/ - https://macventurecapital.com/ - https://parafi.com/ - https://www.chingona.ventures/ - https://www.plexocap.com/ - https:/…
Comment linking /
on “Ask HN: YC misses that went on to do well (like veed.io)”Submitted From Network Effects to Cognitive Effects: The New Rules for Platform Dominance as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Your CAC Doesn't Matter as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Cognitive effects greater than network effects as a story · 1 points
HN discussion