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Mike Lee
Personal blog · mur.mu.rsstartupsbusinessculture
Mike Lee's personal blog at mur.mu.rs covers startups, business and culture. Since 2011, 9 different Hacker News readers have linked it 16 times, most often “Knowledge Arbitrage”. The last post was in 2017, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters link this blog for its Appsterdam posts, including one on the Dutch American Friendship Treaty as an immigration route for self-employed app makers, and as background on the Appsterdam community.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- /3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2011-06-26
- Knowledge Arbitrage2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2011-06-26
What Hacker News says?
Tangentially related: http://mur.mu.rs/?p=156
Comment linking /?p=156
on “Facebook Acquires Sofa”Submitted How to Win as a story · 9 points
HN discussionCan't help you with the cold (although it's not exactly Norway), but... "For self-employed Americans, there is the Dutch American Friendship Treaty, which is a piece of war-era diplomacy that makes it relatively simple for Americans to set up manufacturing companies in the Netherlands. Since apps are, by definition, products, we certainly qualify for that." http://mur.mu.rs/2011/05/26/appsterdam-immigration/
Comment linking /2011/05/26/appsterdam-immigration/
on “Why the 9-to-5 Day Is So Tough on Creative Workers”Submitted The Economy of Terror as a story · 3 points
HN discussionStay tuned. Soon announcements to sign up will be made on Appsterdam website at http://appsterdam.rs and on Mike's blog at http://mur.mu.rs
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on “IOS devs put out a call to unite against Lodsys, other patent trolls”Submitted Majority Female as a story · 2 points
HN discussionThat's good feedback and we will have more of that sort of thing in the future, as well as direct help. A lot of this stuff is on my blog, http://mur.mu.rs . One clarification though, we're not really in the business of stating we want to be the next anything. We just want to get App Makers together in one place, and we'd prefer that place be nice. What other people label us is their problem.
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on “Say hello to Appsterdam: developers aim to move the Valley to Amsterdam”Submitted Appsterdam Rising as a story · 2 points
HN discussionMike just wrote a blog post about how much expensive Amsterdam is: http://mur.mu.rs/?p=179 About the "the Valley is moving to X" I can tell you our objective is not to move the Valley here. What we want to really accomplish is to build the some sort of evolution of it. We want to build a great community and make Amsterdam the technology and innovation center in Europe. The outcome looks bright and we are very optimi…
Comment linking /?p=179
on “Say hello to Appsterdam: developers aim to move the Valley to Amsterdam”Submitted Rotten to the Core as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSofa contributed, but they are not "the founders" and this is not a "product" at all. Moreover they are moving because they have been acquired, so it has nothing to do with Appsterdam (apart of telling that this city is a fertile ground for good companies). More on the subject on this post: http://mur.mu.rs/?p=156
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on “Say hello to Appsterdam: developers aim to move the Valley to Amsterdam”Submitted Knowledge Arbitrage as a story · 1 points
HN discussion- nc · 2014-09-08
Might be worth speaking to Mike Lee http://mur.mu.rs of Delicious Library fame. He's started Appsterdam.
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on “Ask HN: Moving from London to Amsterdam” Submitted Mike Lee gives Appsterdam to the App Makers Community as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Be the Anthill — Appsterdam Legal Defense Initiative as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Taking a Stand (against patent trolls) as a story · 1 points
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