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Jason L. Baptiste
Personal blog · jasonlbaptiste.com · on HN as jasonlbaptistestartupscareer
Jason L. Baptiste's personal blog at jasonlbaptiste.com covers startups and career. Since 2009, 39 different Hacker News readers have linked it 115 times, most often “How To Become a Millionaire In Three Years”. The last post was in 2022, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (27) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Jason L. Baptiste for practical startup advice on getting users, distribution, press coverage and making money from email newsletters, often citing his posts on getting press and becoming a millionaire.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 27 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
The personal website of Jason L. Baptiste - CEO of STUDIO and Author of "The Ultralight Startup". Thought leadership on entrepreneurship and Web3.
Most-linked posts?
- How To Become a Millionaire In Three Years6 people · 7 mentions · first linked 2010-06-21
- If You Build It, They Won’t Come.6 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2010-07-27
- How I Pitched TechCrunch And How To Get Press When You Launch Your Startup6 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2010-10-18
- Email Newsletters Are Serious Business3 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2009-10-06
- How To Go From Idea To Launching With Paying Customers In 8 Steps3 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2010-09-17
- How To Succeed Like Apple 3 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2010-07-14
- Email Newsletters Are Still A Serious Business3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2010-07-05
- Why You Need To Start A Startup2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2011-02-08
- Build What Had Previously Not Been Possible 2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2010-08-06
- Some harsh realities of being an entrepreneur2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2011-01-24
What Hacker News says?
All that stuff could be getting submitted and just not upvoted, because it is boring. It's not boring if you want to become very wealthy. For reference, see jasonlbaptiste's "How to become a millionaire in 3 years?" post: http://jasonlbaptiste.com/startups/how-to-become-a-millionai... These bits in particular: Charge for something- Building a consumer property dependent upon advertising has easily made many milliona…
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on “41,000,006 reasons why I think we're in a bubble”Submitted How To Become a Millionaire In Three Years as a story · 322 points
HN discussion- t0 · 2013-03-16
They won't come. At least not automatically. It requires some effort on your part, even if it's a tiny bit. I love that quote. Is this the original source? http://jasonlbaptiste.com/featured-articles/if-you-build-it-...
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on “Tell HN: My Web App has 13 Users” Submitted If You Build It, They Won’t Come. as a story · 216 points
HN discussionPaul -- would love to hear a summary of what you did to market these sites. SEO? Direct marketing? Word of mouth? Online ads? What was your approach, and what did you learn? Edit: I suppose one could read this post: http://jasonlbaptiste.com/startups/distribution-distribution...
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on “Ask HN: Side Projects Gone Big”Submitted Build What Had Previously Not Been Possible as a story · 164 points
HN discussionHa, really? This post I'm assuming: http://jasonlbaptiste.com/startups/microsoft-excel-is-the-wo... TONS of Micro opportunities here.
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on “Ask HN: Side Projects Gone Big”Submitted How To Go From Idea To Launching With Paying Customers In 8 Steps as a story · 153 points
HN discussionHow about some good old promotion? Contact bloggers and try to get some PR. Here's a few good articles that have been mentioned in HN: http://blogs.balsamiq.com/product//2008/08/05/startup-market... http://blog.zferral.com/post/972974853/startup-marketing-get... http://jasonlbaptiste.com/featured-articles/how-i-pitched-te... http://blog.traindom.com/places-where-to-submit-your-startup...
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on “Things You Should Do Immediately After Launching a Website”Submitted How I Pitched TechCrunch And How To Get Press When You Launch Your Startup as a story · 136 points
HN discussionProper link: http://jasonlbaptiste.com/startups/how-to-become-a-millionai...
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on “A Joke iPhone Sticker Turns Into a Business”Submitted They Will Steal Your Idea. They Cannot Steal What Really Matters. as a story · 124 points
HN discussionhttp://jasonlbaptiste.com/featured-articles/if-you-build-it-...
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on “Zero to a Million Users in 15 Days”Submitted What To Look For In A Business Co-Founder as a story · 112 points
HN discussionHe later turned it into an article on his blog, which has nicer formatting and I think some extra content (though I don't feel like comparing the two side-by-side to confirm it): http://jasonlbaptiste.com/startups/how-to-become-a-millionai...
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on “Low-Competition Niches In Retail Software”Submitted What To Look For In A Technical Co-Founder as a story · 92 points
HN discussionBut one example is often markets where user behavior is fundamentally shifting, or where there is a sudden change (e.g. adoption of truly smart phones) leading to opportunity. Great point. A very good write-up on that is http://jasonlbaptiste.com/featured-articles/build-what-had-p... . Maybe I will write a post on how to identify a great market, as that is a pretty big topic. For what it's worth, I'd love to see you…
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on “You Dont Need a Good Idea To Start a Great Company”Submitted Email Newsletters Are Serious Business as a story · 88 points
HN discussionThis was an insightful article posted on HN a few weeks back: "If you build it, they won't come" http://jasonlbaptiste.com/featured-articles/if-you-build-it-...
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on “The Secret to getting really good press”Submitted Excel Is The World’s Most Used “Database” as a story · 85 points
HN discussionhttp://jasonlbaptiste.com/commentary/email-newsletters-busin... was on HN 6+ years ago and inspired me to get into email newsletters, which I was very skeptical about. Now we're a company of 9 doing it :-) It's not a very self help style post, but just seeing examples of something was enough to inspire.
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on “Rich dad, poor dad – the story that formed my views on making money”Submitted Ways Your Startup Needs To Be Getting Customers as a story · 83 points
HN discussionAnother home run. I'm really taking a liking for Jason Baptiste's style. Having said that, I'd be interested in more articles on how to gain traction. The last one ( http://jasonlbaptiste.com/featured-articles/if-you-build-it-... ) was incredible, and it definitely left me wanting more. Thanks, Jason.
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on “Why They Were Able To Raise Money”Submitted Why They Were Able To Raise Money as a story · 82 points
HN discussionWow, the sale price for DailyCandy is an eye-opener (125 million) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DailyCandy Edit: already stated in Jason's original post: http://jasonlbaptiste.com/commentary/email-newsletters-busin...
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on “Email Newsletters Are Still A Serious Business”Submitted Email Newsletters Are Still A Serious Business as a story · 68 points
HN discussionHey, this is a followup to a post that explains that well towards the end: http://jasonlbaptiste.com/commentary/email-newsletters-busin... hth.
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on “Email Newsletters Are Still A Serious Business”Submitted Quotes From PG’s FBFund Talk From Today as a story · 61 points
HN discussionHere's how Eric defined MVP: << First, a definition: the minimum viable product is that version of a new product which allows a team to collect the maximum amount of validated learning about customers with the least effort. ... Second, the definition's use of the words maximum and minimum means it is decidedly not formulaic. It requires judgment to figure out, for any given context, what MVP makes sense. http://www.…
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on “How Dropbox Started As A Minimal Viable Product”Submitted Some harsh realities of being an entrepreneur as a story · 49 points
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