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Lo Min Ming

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Lo Min Ming's personal blog at blog.minming.net covers startups and culture. Since 2012, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 7 times, most often “A billion dollar software tech company is founded every three months in the U.S.”. The last post was in 2014, but the archive is still widely read.

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7mentions?
3HN people?
2012–2015first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 3 in 2012

Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

HN readers link this blog for a post listing companies worth more than $1 billion, cited in a thread on how VCs and writers chase outsized returns from young startups.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

UX, hacking, life, etc.

Most-linked posts?

  1. A billion dollar software tech company is founded every three months in the U.S.
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2012-11-12

What Hacker News says?

  1. Amazon Kindle Unlimited is really converging into what I talked about here: http://blog.minming.net/post/83447062229/unlimited-movies-mu... . "I feel like there’s an opportunity here for Amazon to provide a all-you-can-consume digital lifestyle at a fixed subscription price. If we could subscribe to one single service and forget about every pay-as-you-go service, it would be quite an attractive proposition." This is…

    Comment linking /post/83447062229/unlimited-movies-music-books-magazines

    on “Amazon leaks Kindle Unlimited”
  2. Submitted A billion dollar software tech company is founded every three months in the U.S. as a story · 219 points

    HN discussion
  3. An interesting take on things Dan, however I think the tendency for writers and VCs to focus on youngsters is their desire to find enormously outsized returns; specifically, those in the league of Facebook, Microsoft, Apple, Google and Amazon. Take, for example, this list of companies worth more than 1 Billion dollars: http://blog.minming.net/post/35553963889/a-billion-dollar-so... You will immediately notice that m…

    Comment linking /post/35553963889/a-billion-dollar-software-tech-company-is-founded-every

    on “The Choices Are Fake and the Truth Is All Made Up”
  4. Submitted How much would unlimited access to movies, books, magazines, and music cost? as a story · 50 points

    HN discussion
  5. Submitted Melinda Gates at Stanford: "All lives have equal value" as a story · 33 points

    HN discussion
  6. Submitted Are you a one-boxer or two-boxer? as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  7. Submitted A billion dollar software tech company is founded every 3 months in the U.S as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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