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Company blog · gv.com/libstartupsdesign
GV is the company blog at gv.com, writing about startups and design. Since 2013, 77 different Hacker News readers have linked it 86 times, most often “The Design Sprint”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Sometimes recommended · 7 of 34 sampled comments recommend it?
Why HN links it
HN readers link gv.com for its design sprint method pages, the GV video library and reading lists, and its portfolio and team pages, often in discussions of startup design and product validation.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 34 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
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Most-linked posts?
- The Design Sprint14 people · 14 mentions · first linked 2015-01-30
- The Design Sprint – GV4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2019-07-02
- How Google sets goals: OKRs3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2014-01-12
- /3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2021-05-22
- Google Ventures: Unconscious bias at work2 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2015-02-03
- /portfolio2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-05-23
- Why you should move that button 3px to the left2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2014-02-16
- /2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2015-03-12
- Google Ventures product design sprints2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2014-03-12
- The Humans Behind Google Ventures2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2013-11-20
What Hacker News says?
Funny, the stadiacountdown.com counter had actually been over-optimistic, by almost a full year, saying there are 414 days left (extrapolated based on [0]), but with the new announcement of a shutdown date of January 18, 2023, there are only 111 days to go. May it rest in peace. As for whether Google should be taking bets that they might not be able to support, I'm actually very much against this. I would suggest th…
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on “Google is shutting down Stadia”Submitted Google Ventures Library as a story · 155 points
HN discussion> This may be rooted in how designers are taught or simply in how they now practice No course or degree on interaction design - free online to ivy leagues across the world - teaches 'design for aesthetics' and neither do designers in design departments of startups or of big corporates have design sprints where designs are shortlisted because one is more beautiful than others. Infact 'Design Sprint' [0] 'Design Think…
Comment linking /sprint/
on “Perfectly Cropped”Submitted Why you should move that button 3px to the left as a story · 119 points
HN discussionASML is a holding though, it has many subisidiaries and sub-companies, including one that makes photolithography equipment. Google is a search engine but there's also Google Ventures that does investments [0] into loads of different companies. I'm really not sure why (in all these threads) people try to put Europe's biggest tech company into a single box when most big companies aren't. [0] https://www.gv.com/portfol…
Comment linking /portfolio
on “Mistral raises 1.7B€, partners with ASML”Submitted Google Ventures 2014 – The year in review as a story · 14 points
HN discussionSo far a few: 1) Don't spend money and time on things you don't need or will need earliest in a few months from now. 2) Regardless if you have a brand-new idea for a product or try to improve an existing product/process, you need to validate first that you follow the right path. I think a light-weight solution like the idea behing the Design Sprint ( http://www.gv.com/sprint/ ) is a good option. Don't go off and try…
Comment linking /sprint/
on “Ask HN: Why did your startup fail and what did you learn?”Submitted Google Ventures Library as a story · 13 points
HN discussion"In contact with large, established organisations this book tends to produce cargo cults. Simplistic management self-help literature combined with institutional mediocrity, stupidity, fear of change, and hard-shelled delusion is a horrible mix." This has been my experience as well with lean in the enterprise SaaS world. We are currently toying with "design sprints" from Google [1] which is basically a faster version…
Comment linking /sprint/
on “Is the Lean Startup Dead?”- nl · 2015-02-03
Submitted Google Ventures: Unconscious bias at work as a story · 11 points
HN discussion I used to work for Google and did a ton of interviews for roles where I was the hiring manager, as well as others. One of the more painful things that I came across regularly was that we often had multiple great people go through the full interview process for a role, but could only hire one. Often 2-3 candidates could have done the job brilliantly, but we could only choose one. In that case, it tends to be really s…
Comment linking /lib/unconscious-bias-at-work
on “My experience of interviewing for a job at Apple”Submitted The Design Sprint as a story · 11 points
HN discussionForgive if I am misunderstanding, but Google Ventures invested in Uber, not Google itself. Wouldn't this statement from the article be half incorrect: "This puts Google squarely in competition with Uber, which is both an investment and customer of its Google Maps product." 1. https://www.gv.com/about 2. https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/uber/funding-rounds
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on “Google launches Uber rival RideWith”Submitted The Google Ventures Library as a story · 8 points
HN discussionGV have at least one investment in Atlanta. I don't have the drive to dig up the geographic data for this list: https://www.gv.com/portfolio/
Comment linking /portfolio/
on “Sergey Brin: Come to Silicon Valley to scale a business, but not to start one”Submitted Google Ventures: Year in Review 2013 as a story · 6 points
HN discussion#tl;dr Regardless of how long you stay with a company/team always leave it better than you found it. Requirements Gathering, Paper Prototype, MVP, UX-testing, Docs, Tests, Linting, Static Analysis, Git/GitHub Workflow, Team/Personal Learning, Code Quality, CI/CD, Pipelines. #longform Assuming the company is new to me but has already been writing/shipping code for before I arrive ... I ask clarifying questions to get…
Comment linking /sprint
on “Ask HN: What is the first thing you implement at a new company?”Submitted How Google sets goals: OKRs as a story · 5 points
HN discussionThis is interesting. And about a 4 years back Google Ventures https://www.gv.com had invested in Uber Ref : https://techcrunch.com/2013/08/22/google-ventures-puts-258m-...
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on “Alphabet’s CapitalG Leads $1B Round in Lyft”Submitted How Google sets goals: OKRs as a story · 5 points
HN discussionMy favorites: “The science of building a scalable sales team” http://www.gv.com/lib/the-science-of-building-a-scalable-sal... "Lean Product Management" http://www.gv.com/lib/lean-product-management "Lean Analytics" http://www.gv.com/lib/lean-analytics
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on “Google Ventures Library”Submitted How top startups pay designers as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSome of them still requires an account. Like: http://www.gv.com/lib/working-with-the-media "This video is only for employees of GV portfolio companies. Sign in"
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on “Google Ventures Library”Submitted How Top Startups Pay Designers as a story · 4 points
HN discussionAnd you didn't even mention GV, CapitalG and other investment arms. Well forget the others, I am surprised that Google's investments into Oscar, Magic Leap, SpaceX, Impossible, Slack, Stripe,Lyft,Uber, Snap, AirBnb aren't talked about much. I think these can be counted as successful, guaranteed future cash troves. In 10 years, all these are going to be worth a lot. Google should hold onto these. It's like a mini Ber…
Comment linking /portfolio/
on “Capitalism the Apple Way vs. Capitalism the Google Way (2017)”Submitted Google Ventures' new site as a story · 4 points
HN discussionI think the usual approach with these 'sprint' methodologies is to use software like InVision, Figma, etc. to mock-up a prototype. No sense coding before you've got proof positive that users will care, the thinking goes. See: http://www.gv.com/sprint/
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on “Sidepact: start a company with a full-time job”Submitted Shortcuts for better design research as a story · 3 points
HN discussionThat's an awesome site. I've been reading this book on a specific implementation of the design thinking methods with GV's "design sprints" -- might be worth checking out if you haven't heard of it already: http://www.gv.com/sprint/
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on “'Google Hobbies' proof of concept”Submitted Answering questions as a story · 3 points
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