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Pawel Chudzinski

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Pawel Chudzinski writes Tumblr, a personal blog at pawel.ch about startups and business. Since 2013, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times, most often “The Long Slow SaaS Ramp of Death”. The last post was in 2015, but the archive is still widely read.

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5HN people?
2013–2015first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 3 in 2013

Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

Linked in a thread on the author's post about selling his startup for $25.5 million. One commenter cites the post's point that partnerships are rarely real, based on their own experience.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

Pawel Chudzinski's blog - thoughts on venture capital and startups in Berlin and Europe.

Most-linked posts?

  1. The Long Slow SaaS Ramp of Death
    3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2013-12-27

What Hacker News says?

  1. > What you realize, though, is that partnerships are rarely a real thing. This is tangential to the core of the article but I can't stress enough how true this is. In the two companies I've co-founded, we've been approached for partnerships by huge companies (Oracle and Adobe) and tiny, 1-person, pre-revenue shops. In almost every instance, it's been a net loss in time and money. The tiny shops just want help making…

    Comment linking /post/71104054756/the-long-slow-saas-ramp-of-death-i-have-just

    on “I Sold My Startup for $25.5 Million”
  2. Submitted How international is Berlin’s startup scene? as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  3. Submitted The Long Slow Ramp of Death for Saas as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  4. Submitted The Long Slow SaaS Ramp of Death as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  5. Submitted Some data points on how startups rock Berlin as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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