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NEED/WANT
Company blog · needwant.com/pstartupsbusiness
NEED/WANT is the company blog at needwant.com, writing about startups and business. Since 2013, 22 different Hacker News readers have linked it 35 times, most often “I Bought An Apartment To Rent Out On Airbnb”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (10) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link NEED/WANT posts on startups, factory visits in China, the Kickstarter-funded Draft/Mod notebook, Airbnb property investing, and leaving San Francisco.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 10 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Need/Want is a humble group of small businesses. Our portfolio consists of products, hospitality, software, and agency businesses we own & operate.
Most-linked posts?
- I Bought An Apartment To Rent Out On Airbnb5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2013-11-01
- Mod Notebooks’ Launch2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2014-07-09
- Why We Cancelled Our Kickstarter And Funded It Ourselves2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2014-03-18
- Our Startup Would Probably Die If We Were In San Francisco2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2014-07-24
- From Zero To Kickstarter In $5k2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2013-10-23
- How our side project generated $51,365 in 60 days2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2014-12-11
- Why I'm Moving My Business From San Francisco To St. Louis2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2014-01-24
What Hacker News says?
http://needwant.com/p/our-startup-would-die-if-we-were-in-sa...
Comment linking /p/our-startup-would-die-if-we-were-in-san-francisco/
on “Why you should, and shouldn’t, join a startup”Submitted I Bought An Apartment To Rent Out On Airbnb as a story · 583 points
HN discussionThe Hong Kong one is most definitely Ovolo Southside: http://needwant.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/17.jpeg http://www.35mm.com.ph/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/Hong_Kong_...
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on “Visiting Factories in China as an Entrepreneur”Submitted Why I'm Moving My Business From San Francisco To St. Louis as a story · 180 points
HN discussionFrom http://needwant.com/about/ : > Marshall Haas, CEO & Co-Founder: A Texas native… > David Myers, Design & Co-Founder: From New York… > Jason Cox, Head of Operations: Jason was a fashion model in NYC… The only one who's not from the US is > Jon Wheatley, Product & Co-Founder: Born and raised on the south coast of the UK… Are you telling me in addition of not knowing that people in China speak Chinese, they don't k…
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on “Visiting Factories in China as an Entrepreneur”Submitted Why We Cancelled Our Kickstarter And Funded It Ourselves as a story · 111 points
HN discussionI never knew Mod was Draft until I read this linked article. http://needwant.com/p/cancelled-kickstarter-campaign-funded-... While reading that I was wondering, and not accusing Mod team here but just a thought, what is stopping people from using Kickstarter this way (to gauge demand) deliberately? Launch a campaign and yank when it is successful to pursue larger profits?
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on “How We Built and Launched Mod For $22,450”Submitted Our Startup Would Probably Die If We Were In San Francisco as a story · 103 points
HN discussionPromote the hell out of it on Twitter, Reddit, Hacker News (done). Apply to speak at conferences and go speak about it. There are plenty of PHP conferences to choose from. Get your employer to pay for the trips. Other ideas for passive income: http://needwant.com/p/buying-apartment-airbnb/
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on “Ask HN: My first attempt at passive income. Where do I take it now?”Submitted Visiting Factories in China as an Entrepreneur as a story · 98 points
HN discussionFor those of you disappointed by this article and want a great article about leaving SF, try this: http://needwant.com/p/im-moving-san-francisco-st-louis/
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on “I’m bailing on San Francisco”Submitted From Zero To Kickstarter In $5k as a story · 80 points
HN discussionHere's the original article by Jon Wheatley: http://needwant.com/p/buying-apartment-airbnb/ I wouldn't consider him a "professional Airbnb Investor"; he just did it once.
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on “The Rise of the Professional Airbnb Investor”Submitted How We Built and Launched Mod For $22,450 as a story · 71 points
HN discussionThere's a line: if it becomes more profitable to rent at Airbnb's nightly rates than at monthly / long-term rates, property investors will then drive down long-term housing supply, increasing property values and monthly rents. Airbnb's claim is that there is no evidence suggesting that the line has been crossed, so the only impact of their service is that existing landowners / renters get to line their pockets a bit…
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on “Airbnb and Housing”Submitted The Results Of My Year-Long Physical Product Experiment as a story · 58 points
HN discussionThe original idea (then called Draft) which went to Kickstarter mentioned OCR (see http://needwant.com/p/draft-from-zero-to-kickstarter-in-5k/ ) but I don't see anything about it on the current website.
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on “Mod – A paper notebook that syncs to the cloud”Submitted Mod Notebooks’ Launch as a story · 36 points
HN discussionFly to Vegas and put it all on an apartment. http://needwant.com/p/buying-apartment-airbnb/
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on “Ask HN: How to double your money quickly?”Submitted How our side project generated $51,365 in 60 days as a story · 25 points
HN discussionSubmitted I Rented Apartments To Rent Out On Airbnb For Profit as a story · 18 points
HN discussionSubmitted Mod Notebooks $91,470 Launch as a story · 11 points
HN discussionSubmitted We're Building Our Next Product Publicly as a story · 10 points
HN discussionSubmitted Negotiating our acquisition of Jarvis for $15k as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Secret Community of 20 Kids That Spawned 5 YC Founders as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Making Great Stuff Is The Best Way To Meet Great People as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted How our side project generated $51,365 in 60 days as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Airstar: Branding, Product Samples, and Fulfillment as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Sell Everything as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted How We Created a New Media Publication for $3,743 as a story · 2 points
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