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Nate Westheimer
Personal blog · innonate.com · on HN as innonatestartupsbusiness
Nate Westheimer writes innonate, a personal blog at innonate.com about startups and business. Since 2008, 13 different Hacker News readers have linked it 18 times, most often “BricaBox: Goodbye World! (lessons learned from a failed startup)”. The last post was in 2024, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Nate Westheimer's posts on startup and tech community topics, including demoing software products, the NY Tech Meetup, open-sourcing BricaBox, office hours, and becoming technical.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Nate Westheimer is an entrepreneur, product exec, and investor. This is his blog.
Most-linked posts?
- BricaBox: Goodbye World! (lessons learned from a failed startup)2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2008-06-19
- The HoPE Manifesto: How I Taught Myself to Code2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2011-01-07
What Hacker News says?
The original post on Nate's site: http://innonate.com/demo/
Comment linking /demo/
on “How to Demo Your Software Product - Lessons from 2.5 Years of NY Tech Meetup”Submitted The HoPE Manifesto: How I Taught Myself to Code as a story · 39 points
HN discussionGo to events and talk to as many people as you can there... http://www.meetup.com/ny-tech/ and other smaller tech meetups http://nextny.org/ Nate Westheimer ( http://innonate.com/ ) is the new organizer of the NY tech meetup. He has started an experiment doing office hours to have short (15 minute) meetings with people. http://innonate.com/2008/12/15/office-hours/ Sign up and go talk to him, I can almost guarantee h…
Comment linking /2008/12/15/office-hours/
on “Ask HN: 5-7 months of living expenses left; terrified. Advice?”Submitted A letter from an investor to an entrepreneur as a story · 27 points
HN discussionI think it's worth reminding the story of BricaBox, initially a startup led by Nate Westheimer, and when they closed down, they decided to open source the project : http://code.google.com/p/bricabox/ http://innonate.com/2008/06/19/bricabox-goodbye-world/ Maybe some benchmark to take out of it?
Comment linking /2008/06/19/bricabox-goodbye-world/
on “Ask HN: Open sourcing our product?”Submitted BricaBox: Goodbye World! (lessons learned from a failed startup) as a story · 13 points
HN discussionThese might help: Teach yourself programming in 10 years: http://norvig.com/21-days.html and: http://innonate.com/hope/
Comment linking /hope/
on “Ask HN: how to become technical in 2-3 years?”Submitted How to Get Millions of Users as a story · 7 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Burden: On my new life as an engineer as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted BricaBox goes Open Source as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted "Drunk Dialer" iPhone App Economics as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted 10 Smartest Things Said About the Financial Crisis as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Epic SXSWi party (2006). GaryVee and Community as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Fixit: Twitter Cards Anti-Pattern as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted "The State of the NY technology industry is strong" as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted How Twitter Will be Worth $1.5 Billion by Next Year as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Entrepreneurial Hunger as a story · 1 points
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