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Jordan Cooper
Personal blog · jordancooper.wordpress.com · on HN as jordancooperstartupsbusinesscareer
Jordan Cooper's personal blog at jordancooper.wordpress.com covers startups, business and career. Since 2009, 18 different Hacker News readers have linked it 116 times, most often “Seed Stage Valuation Guide”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-09-03, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Jordan Cooper's posts on venture capital, startup failure and founder-investor relationships, including a 2010 post on being 28 and comparing oneself with peers. Comments cite them as sources, not as praise.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Thoughts on venture capital, startups, technology, and life.
Most-linked posts?
- Seed Stage Valuation Guide3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2011-01-12
- Trees, Sharks & Change2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2010-02-12
- Full of “Potential” = Full of Shit…2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2010-02-06
- Data for Dummies2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2011-08-19
- What Really Happens When You Fail in Startupland2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2013-02-16
What Hacker News says?
The truth is, when you fail, your investors tend to have a bad taste in their mouths. Nobody likes to lose money. Nobody likes to be wrong. Nobody likes to sit in that space that isn’t so happy…and unfortunately for a founder, his person at the point of failure is an embodiment of many things that nobody likes. Now sure, an investor doesn’t dislike the founder himself. If the founder does right and doesn’t succeed,…
Comment linking /2013/02/13/what-really-happens-when-you-fail-in-startupland/
on “Ask HN: Founders whose startups failed, what happens to VC/angel relationships?”Submitted The Downside of "Demo Day" as a story · 85 points
HN discussionIt was my initial reaction to this post by Jordan Cooper: http://jordancooper.wordpress.com/2010/02/06/full-of-potenti... "So today I am 28 years old. When I was 24 I used to look at other Associates at venture capital firms who were 27 and 28 years old and think to myself “well, I’m four years ahead of these guys.” When I was 26 and founding my first company I used to look at 30 year old founders and think “well, I…
Comment linking /2010/02/06/full-of-potential-full-of-shit/
on “A Rigged Game”Submitted Seed Stage Valuation Guide as a story · 60 points
HN discussionExcept that Jordan is also an angel investor, so he certainly has a valuable perspective: http://jordancooper.wordpress.com/lerer-ventures/
Comment linking /lerer-ventures/
on “I am tired of reading blog posts from "bubble predictors"”Submitted Founders Need Rock Hard Abs as a story · 46 points
HN discussionAlso, Jordan Cooper & I have a pretty epic debate going on: http://jordancooper.wordpress.com/2010/02/11/trees-sharks-ch...
Comment linking /2010/02/11/trees-sharks-change/
on “Hubris & the Meaning of Life”Submitted 5 Reasons Founders Hate the Question “So What Do You Do?” as a story · 41 points
HN discussionSubmitted Gut Checks When Founding Your First Company as a story · 26 points
HN discussionSubmitted Effects Of Entrepreneurship Of Savings (Graph) as a story · 26 points
HN discussionSubmitted Open Letter to Seed Investors as a story · 14 points
HN discussionSubmitted I am tired of reading blog posts from "bubble predictors" as a story · 14 points
HN discussionSubmitted So You Signed A Term Sheet? You’re Not Out Of The Woods Yet as a story · 14 points
HN discussionSubmitted Palo Alto to NYC...No Pit Stops as a story · 13 points
HN discussionSubmitted Entrepreneurial DNA Transcends Context as a story · 13 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Dark Art of Negotiation as a story · 12 points
HN discussionSubmitted Startup Networking Pro-Tip: How To Exit A Conversation as a story · 11 points
HN discussionSubmitted Offloading Human Memory to the Cloud as a story · 11 points
HN discussionSubmitted Seed Stage Valuation Guide as a story · 9 points
HN discussionSubmitted Keith Rabois Says “Good Entrepreneurs Don’t Blog” as a story · 8 points
HN discussionSubmitted Bootstrapping to an A round isn’t all roses as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted Seed Stage Valuation Guide as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted A rant for the haters of Andrew Mason as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Twas the night before Disrupt as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Living in a State of "Anonymity Plus" as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted “Pull” Your Ideas From The Ether as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Online We're Googling, Offline Still Stumbling as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Execution, Reflection, and the Friction Therein as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted NYT Says Tech Is Changing Our Brains, But What About Our Language? as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Memorial Day in StartupLand as a story · 4 points
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