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Mårten Mickos

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Mårten Mickos writes School of Herring, a personal blog at schoolofherring.com about startups, business and career. Since 2015, 8 different Hacker News readers have linked it 9 times, most often “Becoming a CEO”. The last post was in 2021, but the archive is still widely read.

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9mentions?
8HN people?
2015–2019first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 4 in 2015

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

Why HN links it

HN readers link Mårten Mickos's School of Herring site for its videos on leadership. The only comment points to them as a source of general leadership lessons.

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.

School of Herring. Leadership in a distributed collaborative world. Silicon Valley entrepreneur and business leader Mårten Mickos' vblog.

Most-linked posts?

  1. Becoming a CEO
    3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2019-12-29

What Hacker News says?

  1. Unrelated, but also check out http://schoolofherring.com/videos/ for some general leadership lessons.

    Comment linking /videos/

    on “Ask HN: What Happened to the Startup School MOOC?”
  2. Submitted Becoming a CEO as a story · 68 points

    HN discussion
  3. Submitted One day I will be a CEO as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  4. Submitted One day I will be a CEO as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  5. Submitted Best business books for a startup CEO as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  6. Submitted Scaling business sales, by Marten Mickos as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  7. Submitted How I became a CEO as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  8. Submitted The importance of dissent as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  9. Submitted Best business books for a startup CEO as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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