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My musepad
Personal blog · birch.costartupsbusiness
My musepad is a personal blog at birch.co about startups and business. Since 2010, 18 different Hacker News readers have linked it 19 times. The last post was in 2023, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog for essays on education and on why CRM software fails sales teams. Comments discuss the author's views on public schools and CRMs as outdated corporate reporting databases.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Writings and musings from a startup guy. Talk about tech, startups, innovation, investing, food, travel, and other random thoughts.
What Hacker News says?
Time out, I am the post author here and I never inferred anything about free market anything. In fact, I have written extensively on this topic and have stated on many occasions that education needs to remain public in order to provide fair opportunities for all. However, that does not mean that US public schools are without problems. Teachers actually should receive higher salaries, but they also need to be better…
Comment linking /post/10127535253/the-us-education-conundrum
on “Why Do We Expect So Little of Our Youth?”Submitted Sales for Startups: Not All Leads Are Equal as a story · 3 points
HN discussionAgree on the need to make sales tools more usable by sales people. The two biggest issues we've identified with CRM usage are around (1) compliance (e.g., Inputting sales info per company policy) and (2) currency (e.g., keeping the sales information fresh and up to date). The design point for most CRMs is as a corporate reporting tool, in essence a static db of outdated or missing data. The reality is that most CRMs…
Comment linking /post/19234996380/the-failure-of-sales-analytics
on “CRMs Are Not Sales Software ”Submitted Running a Billion Dollar Startup with Twelve People? as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted API Is The Community as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Sales For Startups: Plans, Processes, and Methods as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted We Do Not Have a Job Shortage, We Have a Skills Shortage as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Top Ten Annoying Memes in Startup Land as a story · 2 points
HN discussion- dh · 2011-04-14
Submitted Confusion between Vision and the Journey as a story · 2 points
HN discussion Submitted All Business is Personal as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Startup Accelerators Are The New MBA as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Myth of the Indie Software Developer as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Funding Announcements and Startups as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Bold 2012 Tech Startup predictions as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Gambling, Investing and Startups as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted You Are Using LinkedIn Wrong as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Programming and Fundamentals (and early stage "startups") as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Marketing for startups: what is marketing? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Professional Monikers We Can Do Without as a story · 1 points
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