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Nathan H. Leung
Personal blog · natecation.com · on HN as 18nleungstartupscareerbusiness
Nathan H. Leung's personal blog at natecation.com covers startups, career and business. Since 2021, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 7 times, most often “Investing in Startups by Passing the Series 65”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-05-11, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Comments in two threads on VC investing and investor access cite an article about one person's experience becoming a licensed investment advisor to qualify as an accredited investor. The comments do not assess the writing.
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.
Nathan H. Leung's personal website and blog
Most-linked posts?
- Investing in Startups by Passing the Series 654 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2021-10-13
What Hacker News says?
Nah. The average person was and should have been prevented from investing in Ebay until they were a publicly traded company, which required Ebay execs to share with the public enough information to have a hope of correctly valuing the investment. Even if you don't care at all about individuals getting fleeced by scammers, there's a societal reason. We need investment capital for growth, and we need it to be reasonab…
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on “Coinbase is reportedly selling geolocation data to ICE”Submitted Investing in Startups by Passing the Series 65 as a story · 102 points
HN discussionI am the founder of a VC backed company If you don't meet the income requirements for being an accredited investor, the easiest way want to become an accredited investor is to become a licensed investment advisor. Someone wrote an article about their experience becoming licensed[0] In terms of investment amount, most seed stage companies are willing to take checks as small as $10k, sometimes even lower. If you want…
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on “Ask HN: How to Invest in VC Companies?”Submitted A Review of My Year at Jupiter (YC S19) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Notes on YC P26, halfway through the batch as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Investing in Startups with the Series 65 as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Life at the Margin: How I got $25,000 in debt as a story · 1 points
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