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Jerzy Gangi

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Jerzy Gangi writes Jerzy's Notes, a personal blog at jerzygangi.com about startups and business. Since 2012, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 12 times, most often “Why Silicon Valley funds Instagrams, not Hyperloops”. The last post was in 2016, but the archive is still widely read.

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12mentions?
3HN people?
2012–2015first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 8 in 2013

Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

HN commenters link Jerzy Gangi's essays on startup funding, such as why Silicon Valley funds Instagrams rather than Hyperloops, and on full-stack startups, which reproduce Balaji Srinivasan's tweets.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 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?

  1. Why Silicon Valley funds Instagrams, not Hyperloops
    3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2013-08-19

What Hacker News says?

  1. Link for those who want to see the original article: http://jerzygangi.com/why-silicon-valley-funds-instagrams-no...

    Comment linking /why-silicon-valley-funds-instagrams-not-hyperloops/

    on “Why Silicon Valley Funds Instagrams, Not Hyperloops”
  2. Submitted Why Silicon Valley funds Instagrams, not Hyperloops as a story · 123 points

    HN discussion
  3. I'm not going to say the author stole my post from yesterday, but it sure is eerily similar... What a coincidence! http://jerzygangi.com/2012/06/17/youre-making-money-but-are-... http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4126955

    Comment linking /2012/06/17/youre-making-money-but-are-you-making-a-profit/

    on “Stop claiming you’re profitable”
  4. Submitted HealthCare.gov Signup is Broken on Day 1 (in pictures) as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  5. This format is painful to read, so I'm copying the content here. This is a series of tweets by https://twitter.com/balajis -- If you are using software to go after a legacy physical vertical, we are most excited if you do it "full stack" [0]. With @counsyl, we found that one cannot live by bioinformatics alone. So built a full clinical lab + software + national salesforce. Here is a video of our robotic genome facto…

    Comment linking /why-silicon-valley-funds-instagrams-not-hyperloops/

    on “On Full-Stack Startups”
  6. Submitted The algorithmic entrepreneur as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  7. Submitted My thoughts on the US government shutdown as a story · 1 points

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  8. Submitted Why the Ubuntu Edge campaign failed as a story · 1 points

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  9. Submitted Hustling: A guide for entrepreneurs as a story · 1 points

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  10. Submitted How to build a rockstar advisory board as a story · 1 points

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  11. Submitted You’re making money, but are you making a profit? as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  12. Submitted How to survive a tech bubble as a story · 1 points

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