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news.greylock.com is the company blog at news.greylock.com, writing about startups and business. Since 2016, 38 different Hacker News readers have linked it 42 times, most often “The New Moats (2017)”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Greylock is a venture firm whose blog covers startup strategy, such as a Casey Winters breakdown of Airbnb's brand-led growth, and its investment announcements, such as Convoy.
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.
Most-linked posts?
- The New Moats (2017)4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2017-04-26
What Hacker News says?
AirBnb took the opposite approach of Expedia, Booking, VRBO, etc. Instead of focusing on SEO and paid search like the incumbents, AirBnb focused on brand. Great breakdown by Casey Winters on the strategies - https://news.greylock.com/four-strategies-to-win-big-with-lo... - showing that there are different strategies, and not one absolute best.
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on “Airbnb S-1”Submitted Why Uber Won as a story · 173 points
HN discussionConvoy | Software Engineer | Seattle | Full-time, onsite, https://convoy.com We're optimizing the trucking and logistics industry; automating what is, today, a $800B industry that still runs on fax machines and phone calls. Currently backed by top tier investors. Read about us: https://news.greylock.com/our-investment-in-convoy-changing-... I'm employee #2, and I've been here since we were borrowing desks at a local…
Comment linking /our-investment-in-convoy-changing-the-logistics-game-and-inventing-the-future-of-trucking-d3a8bd991f46
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2017)”Submitted What I look for in a pitch as a story · 116 points
HN discussionConvoy | Software Engineer | Seattle | Full-time, onsite, https://convoy.com We're optimizing the trucking and logistics industry; automating what is, today, a $800B industry that still runs on fax machines and phone calls. Currently backed by top tier investors. Read about us: https://news.greylock.com/our-investment-in-convoy-changing-... I'm employee #2, and I've been here since we were borrowing desks at a local…
Comment linking /our-investment-in-convoy-changing-the-logistics-game-and-inventing-the-future-of-trucking-d3a8bd991f46
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2017)”Submitted The Only Metric That Matters: How many are really using your product? (2017) as a story · 94 points
HN discussionYeah I’m kinda on the fence about this. On one hand, I see the case that this diminishes the open market. On the other hand, Amazon is doing this all within their own ecosystem. So it’s a bit disingenuous for the FTC to say that this has nothing to do with their size. The problem the FTC keeps skirting around on anticompetitive is the fact that the internet favors power differentials, so we’d have to ding any compan…
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on “FTC Sues Amazon for Illegally Maintaining Monopoly Power”Submitted What is successful onboarding? as a story · 62 points
HN discussionSubmitted Five Types of Virality as a story · 55 points
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HN discussionSubmitted The New Moats (2017) as a story · 8 points
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Submitted Our Investment in Callisto (A Sexual Assault Reporting Tool) as a story · 1 points
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