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Jay Neely
Personal blog · socialstrategist.com · on HN as JayNeelystartupsbusinessweb
Jay Neely writes Social Strategist, a personal blog at socialstrategist.com about startups, business and web. Since 2008, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 14 times, most often “Lessons Learned from Shutting Down My Second Startup”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Boston startups, online marketing, and life as a web entrepreneur.
Most-linked posts?
- Lessons Learned from Shutting Down My Second Startup2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2011-01-04
What Hacker News says?
Yep. 1) Blogging helps build my personal brand, 2) gives me control over the first things people are seeing about me when they search my name, and 3) gives me platform to improve my writing / coding / design / SEO / and marketing skills. I write about startups, marketing, and Boston entrepreneurship at: http://socialstrategist.com
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on “Do you have a blog? And if so, why?”Submitted Self-knowledge: Good for entrepreneurship, excellent for info overload. as a story · 4 points
HN discussionThree so far. Over the course of about 5 years. 6 months to a year and a half on each. Wrote post-mortems for the first two: http://socialstrategist.com/2008/10/28/news-armada-post-mort... http://socialstrategist.com/2010/12/04/lessons-learned-from-... Haven't written anything for the third yet; we may still use the tech & assets from it to move in a different direction. Failure is frustrating, but I've learned a to…
Comment linking /2010/12/04/lessons-learned-from-shutting-down-my-second-startup/
on “Ask HN: How Many Startups/Projects Have You Failed At?”Submitted Lessons Learned from Shutting Down My Second Startup as a story · 3 points
HN discussionOr you could just be profitable in multiple currencies. Anyone who's building a web startup should realize they have a global business. It's a small amount of effort to provide a Canadian, Australian, and U.K. localized version if you're an English speaker. Even if you're not concerned about the economy, there's no reason to not take advantage of foreign markets. StudiVZ, a straight-up clone of Facebook in Germany,…
Comment linking /2007/08/20/go-global-or-lose-one-hundred-million-dollars
on “I raised enough to last me for years. You should too. Now. If you can.”Submitted How the Semantic Web Will & Won't Work as a story · 3 points
HN discussionI wrote about recommendations/reviews this morning, in the context of major changes that would be made to social network services from 2010 to 2015. "Many may not realize it, but Facebook's Beacon 'service', in which purchases you made were displayed to your friends, was a poorly thought out, horribly misguided attempt... at something we all want (even if we don't admit it): our friends' opinions. But in addition to…
Comment linking /2008/01/27/social-networking-services-of-2010-part-i
on “How To Drastically Improve Yelp and Other Recommendation Sites”Submitted Who are the darling children startups these days? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionI commented to Allen, the post author, that I think it's very important that he include Andy's stated loan-making strategy before he starts casting doubt on Prosper's, or peer to peer lending in general's, effectiveness: "We focus our lending efforts on people who [...] Have a lower credit score (and are thus willing to pay higher interest rates)"* While Andy does try to mitigate that risk, he's still purposely lend…
Comment linking /2007/06/08/small-loans-big-bucks-the-world-of-social-lending
on “Social Lending -- Just How Many Loans Can Go Late Before We Worry?”Submitted The Future of Social Objects - SNSs of 2010 - Part III as a story · 1 points
HN discussionI don't think there are enough connections among individuals in the community to make that work. HN doesn't place a high priority on identity. No avatars, no karma display, no username differentiation. I'd bet the average HN member can only recall around ten HN usernames they have a good idea of the personality & project of. http://socialstrategist.com/2008/04/16/your-users-are-boring... HN did start a cofounder wis…
Comment linking /2008/04/16/your-users-are-boring-help-them-stand-out
on “Ask HN: Could HN be a dating bureau for entrepreneurs? ”Submitted True Social Software - Part II of Social Network Services of 2010 as a story · 1 points
HN discussionHello fellow Hacker News readers! I wrote this submission myself, and decided to submit it because I thought the community here would find it interesting. Several others in #startups on irc.freenode.net thought it wasn't a bad idea to submit my own material, and as far as I know news.YC doesn't have a policy against self-promotion. If the community feels differently, that's worth discussing and perhaps noting somewh…
Comment linking /2007/08/20/go-global-or-lose-one-hundred-million-dollars
on “True Social Software - Part II of Social Network Services of 2010”
