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Larry Cheng

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Larry Cheng's personal blog at larrycheng.com covers startups and business. Since 2009, 17 different Hacker News readers have linked it 93 times, most often “Venture Capital (VC) Blog Directory – 2011 Edition « Thinking About Thinking”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.

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93mentions?
17HN people?
2009–2017first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 43 in 2009

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

Why HN links it

HN readers link Larry Cheng's post listing the most-read venture capital blogs, ranked by page views. Commenters cite it as a directory of VC blogs worth following.

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.

Co-Founder, Volition Capital. Public boards: $GME $GROV. Private boards: US Mobile, Rounds, and several others.

Most-linked posts?

  1. Venture Capital (VC) Blog Directory – 2011 Edition « Thinking About Thinking
    4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2011-01-20
  2. Where in the world is Eduardo Saverin (story from early Facebook)
    3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2009-06-15
  3. The Companies Worth Less Than Facebook
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2011-01-12
  4. Are 80% of Harvard Students First Borns?
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2010-03-06
  5. Groupon Has Called Every Business In The United States
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2011-02-08
  6. Google Spiders Websites 3,000 Times Faster Than Bing In The First Month
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2011-09-08
  7. Are You A Founder, CEO, or Entrepreneur?
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2009-11-06

What Hacker News says?

  1. Looks like I missed an opportunity for a grand click-bait headline: "David Skok dissed by Wall Street Journal". Here is the list according to the original source[1]: 1. Paul Graham (@paulg), YCombinator, Essays (97,227) 2. Fred Wilson (@fredwilson), Union Square Ventures, A VC (81,483) 3. Mark Suster (@msuster), GRP Partners, Both Sides of the Table (53,655) 4. Brad Feld (@bradfeld), Foundry Group, Feld Thoughts (38…

    Comment linking /2011/01/19/venture-capital-vc-blog-directory-2011-edition/

    on “The Most-Read Blogs By Venture Capitalists”
  2. Submitted The Chapter In The Bible That Appears Twice as a story · 53 points

    HN discussion
  3. abiekatz · 2012-03-18Recommends
    I really like the list of VC blogs here: http://larrycheng.com/2011/01/19/venture-capital-vc-blog-dir... They are ranked by the number of page views which is a decent proxy for quality.

    Comment linking /2011/01/19/venture-capital-vc-blog-directory-2011-edition/

    on “6 Venture Capital Blogs Everyone Should Read”
  4. Submitted Why Do Some Relationships Fail? as a story · 41 points

    HN discussion
  5. Submitted The Most Expensive Place To Put A Computer as a story · 37 points

    HN discussion
  6. Submitted Give Me A Dollar and I'll Give You 90 Cents Back as a story · 36 points

    HN discussion
  7. Submitted The Companies Worth Less Than Facebook as a story · 34 points

    HN discussion
  8. Submitted If a Board Meeting was like the State of the Union as a story · 26 points

    HN discussion
  9. Submitted Just How Profitable Are Healthcare Insurers? as a story · 23 points

    HN discussion
  10. Submitted Where in the world is Eduardo Saverin (story from early Facebook) as a story · 21 points

    HN discussion
  11. Submitted It's Hard To Get The News From The News as a story · 20 points

    HN discussion
  12. Submitted Missionary CEO's v. Mercenary CEO's as a story · 19 points

    HN discussion
  13. Submitted Are 80% of Harvard Students First Borns? as a story · 16 points

    HN discussion
  14. Submitted Should Bernie Madoff Have Charged 1% or 2% Fees? as a story · 15 points

    HN discussion
  15. Submitted Groupon Has Called Every Business In The United States as a story · 9 points

    HN discussion
  16. Submitted What If The Federal Government Was An Average Household? as a story · 9 points

    HN discussion
  17. Submitted Cortera: Turning The Business Credit Rating Industry Upside Down as a story · 9 points

    HN discussion
  18. Submitted Global VC Blog Directory – Ranked By Google Reader Subscribers (May 2009) as a story · 8 points

    HN discussion
  19. Submitted Groupon Has Called Every Business In The United States as a story · 7 points

    HN discussion
  20. Submitted Google Spiders Websites 3,000 Times Faster Than Bing In The First Month as a story · 6 points

    HN discussion
  21. Submitted College Optional as a story · 6 points

    HN discussion
  22. Submitted The Learning Test as a story · 6 points

    HN discussion
  23. Submitted Founder Liquidity as a story · 5 points

    HN discussion
  24. Submitted Succeeding With A Potential Single Point Of Failure as a story · 5 points

    HN discussion
  25. Submitted What Happens After The VC Associate Cold Call? as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  26. Submitted Burn Rate Norms as a story · 4 points

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  27. Submitted The Categories of Risk in the VC Brain as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  28. Submitted Seedlings that need to be watered as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  29. Submitted Google's Spidering Rate Is 3000 Times Faster Than Bing In The First Month as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  30. Submitted The U.S. Company That Knows More About China Than China Does as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion

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