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Giff Constable
Personal blog · giffconstable.comstartupsbusiness
Giff Constable's personal blog at giffconstable.com covers startups and business. Since 2009, 27 different Hacker News readers have linked it 47 times, most often “Tips for Customer Development Interviews ”. The last post was in 2023, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Giff Constable's blog covers product management and team leadership, including working agreements for teams and customer development tips. HN readers link posts such as these.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Tips for Customer Development Interviews 3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2011-07-30
- Isn’t the "Lean startup" method supposed to prevent failure?2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2010-07-01
What Hacker News says?
Also, I've called it Working Agreements. Here is a great post about them - https://giffconstable.com/2016/03/getting-tactical-product-t...
Comment linking /2016/03/getting-tactical-product-team-working-agreements/
on “How to be a Manager – A step-by-step guide to leading a team”Submitted Lean Startup "Marketing Bullshit" as a story · 46 points
HN discussionhttp://giffconstable.com/2011/07/12-tips-for-customer-develo... "make sure that you're learning, not selling!"
Comment linking /2011/07/12-tips-for-customer-development-interviews-revised/
on “Watch other people code”Submitted Yes You Need a Co-Founder as a story · 35 points
HN discussionWe offer low pay, no health insurance and we won't pay for your visa (its bad enough we have to pay for mine). Our work environment is bozo free, the code-base is not some gigantic mess (woo!), and we won't make you conform to some "big company" set of software engineering practices (we don't have time). We are an NYC-based startup building a curation and machine-learning based product discovery engine, focused on t…
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on “Ask HN: Who's Hiring? (Summer Edition)”Submitted Selling your company – some core questions and answers as a story · 34 points
HN discussionSubmitted Tips for early customer development interviews as a story · 15 points
HN discussionSubmitted Lean Wireframing as a story · 12 points
HN discussionSubmitted What can non-coder founders do all day? as a story · 11 points
HN discussionSubmitted Failing Lean as a story · 9 points
HN discussionSubmitted Can business schools teach entrepreneurship? as a story · 8 points
HN discussionSubmitted $9.4M? And Aprizi's First Pivot as a story · 7 points
HN discussionSubmitted Tips for the Next Generation of Entrepreneurs as a story · 7 points
HN discussionSubmitted When it comes to startups, products and services don't mix as a story · 7 points
HN discussionSubmitted A fair vesting system for a bootstrapped side project as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted My Winding Road to Lean Startup as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Truth Curve and the Build Curve as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted A Guide To Lean Product Management as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Tips for low-volume A/B testing as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted The hardest thing about user testing and 5 tips to help as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Customer development isn’t enough; think holistically as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Entertainment or Utility? (more on gamification) as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Stupidity of Entrepreneurs as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Lean's Great Dilemma: Persist or Pivot as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Tips for Customer Development Interviews as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted You can't skip over early adopters as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Tips for Customer Development Interviews (revised) — giffconstable.com as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Problem UX UI as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Lean Failure and the Risk of No-Man's Land as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Isn’t the "Lean startup" method supposed to prevent failure? as a story · 2 points
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