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Jack Altman

Personal blog · jackealtman.comstartupsbusinesseconomics

Jack Altman's personal blog at jackealtman.com covers startups, business and economics. Since 2012, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 22 times, most often “Startup knowledge decays quickly”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-01-13, and you can follow it by feed.

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22mentions?
6HN people?
2012–2022first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 16 in 2013

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

Why HN links it

The only comment is a bare "Relevant:" link to a post from the Jack Altman blog, whose URL slug suggests it is about how startup knowledge decays over time. No comment judges 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.

Most-linked posts?

  1. Startup knowledge decays quickly
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2013-01-10

What Hacker News says?

  1. api · 2013-01-11
    Relevant: http://jackealtman.com/2013/01/10/startup-knowledge-decays-q...

    Comment linking /2013/01/10/startup-knowledge-decays-quickly/

    on “No One Will Steal Your Big Idea”
  2. jackaltman · 2013-11-08

    Submitted Why Twitter's IPO is Bad for Startups as a story · 106 points

    HN discussion
  3. jackaltman · 2013-01-04

    Submitted Pay attention to power law distributions as a story · 54 points

    HN discussion
  4. jackaltman · 2013-06-20

    Submitted Should we do more to incentivize open source? as a story · 47 points

    HN discussion
  5. jackaltman · 2014-01-27

    Submitted Customer service isn't a department as a story · 46 points

    HN discussion
  6. jackaltman · 2013-01-10

    Submitted Startup knowledge decays quickly as a story · 45 points

    HN discussion
  7. jackaltman · 2014-07-01

    Submitted Platforms for job creation as a story · 20 points

    HN discussion
  8. jackaltman · 2014-04-18

    Submitted Why we're not in a tech bubble as a story · 17 points

    HN discussion
  9. jackaltman · 2013-09-18

    Submitted Social-first: The new way to live as a story · 7 points

    HN discussion
  10. jackaltman · 2013-12-06

    Submitted Ownership and the Sharing Economy as a story · 6 points

    HN discussion
  11. jackaltman · 2013-02-26

    Submitted Creating technological revolutions as a story · 5 points

    HN discussion
  12. jackaltman · 2013-06-11

    Submitted Lost on our phones as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  13. jackaltman · 2013-05-14

    Submitted US Healthcare is an Embarrassment as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  14. jackaltman · 2013-03-20

    Submitted Know thyself and compete accordingly as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  15. troquerre · 2018-05-21

    Submitted How to work with a COO at a startup as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  16. jackaltman · 2013-05-13

    Submitted Your best option is to be the best as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  17. abreckle · 2013-02-27

    Submitted Startup Knowledge Decays Quickly as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  18. jackaltman · 2013-02-11

    Submitted The trouble with startup valuations as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  19. mattharney · 2022-03-23

    Submitted Promotion Cultures as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  20. jackaltman · 2013-03-08

    Submitted The widening of the base as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  21. jackaltman · 2013-02-12

    Submitted Beware of local maxima as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  22. czstrong · 2012-11-14

    Submitted Buying your way out of advertisements as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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