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Jeremiah Owyang
Personal blog · web-strategist.com/blogbusinessstartupsweb
Jeremiah Owyang's personal blog at web-strategist.com covers business, startups and web. Since 2007, 38 different Hacker News readers have linked it 49 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-01, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (5) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Jeremiah Owyang's blog on social media, web strategy and tech business. Commenters link its posts as sources, such as for MySpace vs Facebook user numbers, Twitter, and gig-economy companies.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 5 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Inside the investor network built on trust. Photo of my fellow Kauffman Class 31 fellows, an amazing group of investors. I’m on far left, row 5 Career update: I’ve joined Kauffman Fellows, the program for VCs and investors. I was honored to be accepted into Class 31 this year. Like an advanced degre
What Hacker News says?
It seems several of them are now failing. Like you say, it's basically a miscalculation of unit economics over time, but being able to reduce staffing costs by 20% or more certainly gave them more runway. Hard to say if the others have fixed their economics (eg, Instacart) or are simply better at fundraising. Here's a list from 2015 [1] showing some of these companies that are trying to switch to W-2. Munchery Stiff…
Comment linking /blog/2015/07/30/collaborative-startups-shift-from-contractor-to-employee-relationships/
on “The Gig Economy’s False Promise”Submitted How to Get Noticed as a story · 8 points
HN discussionhttp://rapidsocialresponse.com - An automated response system for Twitter @mentions ( not canned responses). That is, you preset a response to a specific @mention to you. I'm using Django + Python AIML at the back-end, so there's some NLP involved (although that knowledge is not needed on the for end-users). The name is from Jeremiah Owyang's post here: http://www.web-strategist.com/blog/2010/03/05/altimeter-repo...
Comment linking /blog/2010/03/05/altimeter-report-the-18-use-cases-of-social-crm-the-new-rules-of-relationship-management/
on “Ask HN: Show me your Half Baked project”Submitted Infographic: Blockchain Opportunities for Every Industry as a story · 5 points
HN discussionIf we're going to compare myspace and facebook... it's worth pointing out that myspace, at its peak, had 110m active users. In other words, MySpace never achieved what Facebook has. http://www.web-strategist.com/blog/2008/01/09/social-network...
Comment linking /blog/2008/01/09/social-network-stats-facebook-myspace-reunion-jan-2008/
on “Will 2013 be the year Facebook becomes MySpace?”Submitted End of an Era: The Golden Age of Tech Blogging is Over as a story · 5 points
HN discussionCase in point: http://www.web-strategist.com/blog/2008/08/01/how-janet-fool... (Random twitterer pretends to be official spokesperson for Exxon)
Comment linking /blog/2008/08/01/how-janet-fooled-the-twittersphere-shes-the-voice-of-exxon-mobil/
on “ SoCal earthquake a powerful reminder of Twitter’s potential”Submitted Why Media and Corporations Should Allow Content to be Embeddable as a story · 4 points
HN discussion> 1. Talent is really hard to find here in Atlanta. Finding talent will be even more difficult in NYC & SFO. Look where other people aren't looking. Jason Fried has a brilliant take on this > http://www.inc.com/magazine/201607/jason-fried/tech-poaching... > 2. The network of investors in Atlanta aren't interested in our space. ATL benefits from 2500+ daily flights -- there are potential investors all over the map. T…
Comment linking /blog/2013/03/29/meet-the-investors-of-social-networks-and-social-media/
on “Ask HN: SF vs. NYC?”Submitted Applying a Social Computing Strategy to the Entire Product Lifecycle as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Facebook’s Crusade of Colonization as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Best Buy Launches API: Corporate Websites Extend to Open Web as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted What Friendfeed’s “MicroMeme” Means For You, Brands, and The Web as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Who do people trust? (It ain’t bloggers) as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted How I'm experimenting with Life-as-a-Service as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Money Flows in the Collaborative Economy as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted What happens when Klout marries Google Goggles? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Great collection of social network stats for 2010 as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Beyond the Money: Some VCs Provide Startups With A Competitive Edge as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Evolution of Brands on Twitter as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Predictions: What Technology will Replace as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Big Brands Experiment with NFTs, and a Look to the Future as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Graphic: Corporate Innovation Programs Come in Ten Flavors as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Call for Insights: Innovation Success Measures Report as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Corporate Innovation Talent Strategy: Intrapreneurship, Universities, and Acquis as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted 11 Ways Startups Outrun Established Corporations: Jeremiah Owyang as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Get Data and Stats for Your Collaborative Economy Research as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Sharing Economy Taxonomy as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Should Community Managers be certified? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Infographics are Useful, But They Must Evolve as a story · 1 points
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