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NFX
Company blog · nfx.com/poststartupsbusiness
NFX is the company blog at nfx.com, writing about startups and business. Since 2017, 97 different Hacker News readers have linked it 227 times, most often “Life Is Driven by Network Effects”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (18) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link NFX's articles on network effects, marketplaces, founder-market fit and startup fundraising. The network effects manual and the labor marketplaces post are the ones most often cited.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 18 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
We are a VC firm investing in pre-seed and seed stage startups. We back exceptional Founders building market-transforming companies.
Most-linked posts?
- Life Is Driven by Network Effects6 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2020-01-14
- Network Effects Manual6 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2018-01-09
- The Patterns of Great Startup Ideas5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2019-07-31
- AI Is Like Water4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2024-02-17
- Find the Fast Moving Water4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2022-09-06
- Is Blockchain Really Over?3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2018-11-20
- Tactics to Solve the Chicken-Or-Egg Problem and Grow Your Marketplace3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2018-06-30
- The Network Effects Manual: 13 Different Network Effects (and Counting)3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2021-06-01
- Generative Tech Begins3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2022-10-21
- Why Startup Timing Is Everything3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2018-05-30
What Hacker News says?
Sagetap | 100% Remote (UTC-9 to UTC-5) | Full-Time | Software Engineers | https://www.sagetap.io/careers At a high level, Sagetap is a tool/marketplace for helping our clients (other tech companies building software, largely in the devops, cybersecurity, and infra spaces) determine if the thing they're building, and the way they're pitching it, is actually what the market wants. We do this by pairing them up with an…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2022)”Submitted Life Is Driven by Network Effects as a story · 269 points
HN discussionYeah, grandparents and computer labs kept their old Apple computers around through the '90s when Apple wasn't cool. Before getting a Mac became at first ironically cool in the early '00s (because they looked funny but couldn't run any good games). Apple is clearly just a default and not a preference with kids nowadays in my experience, like they were for kids in schools in the '90s. They have good games now though.…
Comment linking /post/the-four-types-of-defensibility/
on “The Gates to Hell: Apple’s Notarizing”Submitted How Billion Dollar Marketplaces Are Built as a story · 145 points
HN discussionMarket timing . https://www.nfx.com/post/why-startup-timing-is-everything https://www.ted.com/talks/bill_gross_the_single_biggest_reas... etc.
Comment linking /post/why-startup-timing-is-everything
on “Market is the most important factor in a startup's success or failure (2007)”Submitted Status, Wealth, & Power: Network Effects Demand a New Social Contract as a story · 123 points
HN discussion> Might be wrong, but brief review of this appears to show the “thesis” of PriceOps is yield-based metered feature pricing The "thesis" of PriceOps is less "you must have metered feature pricing", and more "you should design your infrastructure so that you can learn from and adjust pricing in the future". In other words, expect that your product, customers, and landscape will change, and understand that the pricing…
Comment linking /post/the-hidden-world-of-pricing
on “Show HN: Tier.run – Terraform for Stripe”Submitted Rules of Storytelling for Fundraising as a story · 116 points
HN discussionThe “Storytelling” framework by Andy Raskin is very much worth internalizing. His article on the Zuora deck is very popular— The Greatest Sales Deck I’ve Ever Seen | by Andy Raskin | Mission.org | Medium https://medium.com/the-mission/the-greatest-sales-deck-ive-e... The NFX website has a lot of great articles on fundraising advice. This one is on Storytelling: The 23 Rules of Storytelling For Fundraising https://ww…
Comment linking /post/23-rules-storytelling-fundraising/
on “Ask HN: Collection of Pitch Decks?”Submitted The Next 10 Years Will Be About “Market-Networks” as a story · 102 points
HN discussionWent through my Pinboard to extract all these: - https://797capital.com/ - https://www.indexventures.com/ - https://www.sparkcapital.com/ - https://www.hcp.com/ - https://hvflabs.com/ - https://www.republiccapital.co/ - https://plus.vc/ - https://www.rarebreed.vc/ - https://www.dragonfly.xyz/ - https://macventurecapital.com/ - https://parafi.com/ - https://www.chingona.ventures/ - https://www.plexocap.com/ - https:/…
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on “Ask HN: YC misses that went on to do well (like veed.io)”Submitted Viral effects are not network effects as a story · 83 points
HN discussionhttp://nfx.com/ was always a good source on Network Effects on Digital Products. I always also liked Andrew's Chen blog posts, he ended up hired by a16z
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on “The Cold Start Problem: Using Network Effects to Scale Your Product – A Review”Submitted Network Effects Manual as a story · 82 points
HN discussionThis was exactly my excuse when I built the same app. Take a look at this; https://www.nfx.com/post/network-effects-manual
Comment linking /post/network-effects-manual
on “Getting Users Is Hard”Submitted Darwin, Machines, and the Future: A conversation with George Dyson as a story · 71 points
HN discussionThese are outdated narratives. Network effects are much more the cause of success of such people ie where they were geographically and who they were surrounded by - https://www.nfx.com/post/your-life-network-effects/
Comment linking /post/your-life-network-effects/
on “Freddie Figgers: The millionaire tech inventor who was 'thrown away' as a baby”Submitted What It Takes to Build a Marketplace: The Poshmark Story as a story · 56 points
HN discussionIt's called founder market fit - https://www.nfx.com/post/4-signs-founder-market-fit
Comment linking /post/4-signs-founder-market-fit
on “China's overqualified youth taking jobs as drivers, labourers and film extras”Submitted A Founder’s Exponential Toolset: Wright’s Law, Moore’s Law, & More as a story · 49 points
HN discussionUsually network effects. https://www.nfx.com/post/network-effects-manual
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on “WTF Is a Moat?”Submitted How VCs See Your KPIs as a story · 46 points
HN discussionHappened to be reading an old interview with vitalik earlier today which mentioned the following, but unfortunately doesn’t link the studies. > The idea a few years ago was basically that if you had taken an older person (or this works with animals too) and you basically just connect their bloodstream to the younger person, then the older person would be kind of, you know, quote ‘rejuvenated’ with the younger person…
Comment linking /post/vitalik-buterin-the-b-sides
on “Diluting the blood plasma of older human beings rejuvenate them”Submitted Signs You’re Building a World-Class Team as a story · 44 points
HN discussionDepending on the type some are more vulnerable than others - https://www.nfx.com/post/network-effects-manual/
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on “Ask HN: Disrupt companies which depend upon network effects?”Submitted Moves to survive and thrive in a downturn as a story · 44 points
HN discussionhttps://www.nfx.com/post/19-marketplace-tactics-for-overcomi... https://www.applicoinc.com/blog/7-strategies-solving-chicken... https://blog.elichait.com/2018/04/09/how-the-100-largest-mar...
Comment linking /post/19-marketplace-tactics-for-overcoming-the-chicken-or-egg-problem
on “Ask HN: I'm a solo founder and I suck at sales. Help me please.”Submitted Bitcoin Killed the King and Now Network Effects Will Determine Its Future as a story · 38 points
HN discussionAs someone who has worked on multiple marketplace startups, I highly highly recommend this resource: https://www.nfx.com/post/network-effects-bible
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on “Ask HN: How to solve the cold start problem for two-sided marketplace?”Submitted The 7 Powers Known to Tesla, Pixar, Netflix, Apple, and Twilio as a story · 33 points
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