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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.

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116mentions?
18HN people?
2009–2014first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 57 in 2010

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.

The author on HN?

jordancooper · 417 karma · member since 2009

This is my email: jordan.cooper@gmail.com This is our seed fund: http://www.lererventures.com/ This is my blog: http://jordancooper.wordpress.com/ This is where I tweet: https://twitter.com/#!/jordancooper This is my last startup Hyperpublic (data infrastructure startup recently acquired by GRPN): http://hyperpublic.com/ Some YC alums who we've backed and love (that have been announced): Greplin, MongoHQ, Hyperink, Quartzy, Science Exchange, Tutorspree

From their public HN profile, which links to this site.

Most-linked posts?

  1. Seed Stage Valuation Guide
    3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2011-01-12
  2. Trees, Sharks & Change
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2010-02-12
  3. Full of “Potential” = Full of Shit…
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2010-02-06
  4. Data for Dummies
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2011-08-19
  5. What Really Happens When You Fail in Startupland
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2013-02-16

What Hacker News says?

  1. 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?”
  2. Submitted The Downside of "Demo Day" as a story · 85 points

    HN discussion
  3. It 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”
  4. Submitted Seed Stage Valuation Guide as a story · 60 points

    HN discussion
  5. Except 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"”
  6. Submitted Founders Need Rock Hard Abs as a story · 46 points

    HN discussion
  7. Also, 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”
  8. Submitted 5 Reasons Founders Hate the Question “So What Do You Do?” as a story · 41 points

    HN discussion
  9. Submitted Gut Checks When Founding Your First Company as a story · 26 points

    HN discussion
  10. Submitted Effects Of Entrepreneurship Of Savings (Graph) as a story · 26 points

    HN discussion
  11. Submitted Open Letter to Seed Investors as a story · 14 points

    HN discussion
  12. Submitted I am tired of reading blog posts from "bubble predictors" as a story · 14 points

    HN discussion
  13. Submitted So You Signed A Term Sheet? You’re Not Out Of The Woods Yet as a story · 14 points

    HN discussion
  14. Submitted Palo Alto to NYC...No Pit Stops as a story · 13 points

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  15. Submitted Entrepreneurial DNA Transcends Context as a story · 13 points

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  16. Submitted The Dark Art of Negotiation as a story · 12 points

    HN discussion
  17. Submitted Startup Networking Pro-Tip: How To Exit A Conversation as a story · 11 points

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  18. Submitted Offloading Human Memory to the Cloud as a story · 11 points

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  19. Submitted Seed Stage Valuation Guide as a story · 9 points

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  20. Submitted Keith Rabois Says “Good Entrepreneurs Don’t Blog” as a story · 8 points

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  21. Submitted Bootstrapping to an A round isn’t all roses as a story · 6 points

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  22. Submitted Seed Stage Valuation Guide as a story · 6 points

    HN discussion
  23. Submitted A rant for the haters of Andrew Mason as a story · 5 points

    HN discussion
  24. Submitted Twas the night before Disrupt as a story · 5 points

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  25. Submitted Living in a State of "Anonymity Plus" as a story · 5 points

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  26. Submitted “Pull” Your Ideas From The Ether as a story · 5 points

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  27. Submitted Online We're Googling, Offline Still Stumbling as a story · 4 points

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  28. Submitted Execution, Reflection, and the Friction Therein as a story · 4 points

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  29. Submitted NYT Says Tech Is Changing Our Brains, But What About Our Language? as a story · 4 points

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  30. Submitted Memorial Day in StartupLand as a story · 4 points

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