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Mark Goldenson

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Mark Goldenson writes Goldenson.com, a personal blog at goldenson.com about startups and business. Since 2009, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times, most often “Why market risk is better than marketing risk”. The last post was in 2019, but the archive is still widely read.

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3mentions?
3HN people?
2009–2010first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 2 in 2009

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

Why HN links it

Linked as a resource on measuring market size with AdWords, Twitter and Google Trends. The comment points to it alongside related HN threads on the same topic.

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.

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Most-linked posts?

  1. Why market risk is better than marketing risk
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2009-06-05

What Hacker News says?

  1. http://www.goldenson.com/?p=140 besides Adwords, twitter ,adWords, goog trends to put numbers on potential users/buyers/revenue (these are from searching HN on "market size": http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1454221 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1476197 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1581008

    Comment linking /?p=140

    on “Ask HN: How to measure the size of a market?”
  2. Submitted YC Terms are Poor as a story · 70 points

    HN discussion
  3. Submitted Why market risk is better than marketing risk as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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