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Mike Champion

Personal blog · graysky.orgstartupscareer

Mike Champion writes graysky, a personal blog at graysky.org about startups and career. Since 2007, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 17 times, most often “Caution for Startup Kids”. The last post was in 2014, but the archive is still widely read.

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17mentions?
5HN people?
2007–2013first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 5 in 2010

Mike Champion is a software developer in Boston who builds products at HubSpot.

Most-linked posts?

  1. Caution for Startup Kids
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2011-10-17

What Hacker News says?

  1. Submitted The Plumbing Revolution: Developers' Improving Toolbox as a story · 58 points

    HN discussion
  2. Submitted (Mostly) Good Times for Software Developers as a story · 25 points

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  3. Submitted Making Twitter an Information Network as a story · 20 points

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  4. Submitted Rails i18n Simplifier - Translator as a story · 16 points

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  5. Submitted Reverse the Boston Startup Curse as a story · 14 points

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  6. Submitted Rails webapp downtime postmortem as a story · 13 points

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  7. Submitted The Blog Timestamp is Dying as a story · 8 points

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  8. Submitted Flowtown Acquires WhoShouldiFollow (hacker side project) as a story · 7 points

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  9. Submitted Caution for Startup Kids as a story · 5 points

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  10. Submitted Grindstone: Greasemonkey script to Stay Focused as a story · 5 points

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  11. Submitted The Solidity of Software as a story · 4 points

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  12. Submitted Chess Lessons for Startups as a story · 3 points

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  13. Submitted Fixing TextMate Project Refresh Slowness as a story · 2 points

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  14. Submitted Caution for Startup Kids as a story · 1 points

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  15. Submitted Caution for Startup Kids as a story · 1 points

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  16. Submitted Rolling Rails Deploys with Passenger as a story · 1 points

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  17. Submitted Burning Bridges: East Coast vs. West Coast as a story · 1 points

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