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1. The Deployment Age
   10 people · 13 mentions · first linked 2015-10-14
2. Power Laws in Venture Capital
   10 people · 10 mentions · first linked 2015-06-26
3. Boards are dangerous to founder/CEOs
   8 people · 8 mentions · first linked 2021-11-23
4. Venture Capital in the 1980s
   6 people · 7 mentions · first linked 2015-01-09
5. Power Laws in Venture Portfolio Construction
   4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2017-12-05
6. Normal Science and Extraordinary Breakthroughs Are One Process. Kuhn Was Wrong
   4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2020-04-09
7. Startups and Uncertainty
   4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2019-11-26
8. Betting on the Ponies: non-Unicorn Investing
   4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2014-07-03
9. Schumpeter on Strategy
   3 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2019-01-20
10. Heat Death: Venture Capital in the 1980s
    3 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2021-12-03

What Hacker News says?

1. sigil · 2019-06-23

   Here’s some math around power law investing, maybe this post is what you’re looking for? http://reactionwheel.net/2019/01/why-do-vcs-insist-on-only-i...

   Comment linking /2019/01/why-do-vcs-insist-on-only-investing-in-high-risk-high-return-companies.html

   on “Startup idea checklist”
2. tosh · 2021-11-23

   Submitted Boards are dangerous to founder/CEOs as a story · 718 points

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3. rorykoehler · 2020-02-01Recommends

   There was a post on here a couple of weeks ago that spoke about this. Essential reading for indiehackers imo http://reactionwheel.net/2015/10/the-deployment-age.html

   Comment linking /2015/10/the-deployment-age.html

   on “My Second Year as a Solo Developer”
4. vedang · 2024-09-10

   Submitted Jerry Neumann: Resignation Letter as a story · 124 points

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5. tonyedgecombe · 2022-03-29

   Most business owners earn about the same as if they worked for someone else. It's only the top decile where the numbers start to differ. http://reactionwheel.net/2019/01/schumpeter-on-strategy.html

   Comment linking /2019/01/schumpeter-on-strategy.html

   on “Maybe you should do less 'work'”
6. imartin2k · 2019-01-21

   Submitted Schumpeter on Strategy as a story · 101 points

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7. tonyedgecombe · 2024-12-18

   It does if you aren't a big company person. I suspect the majority of entrepreneurs aren't doing it for the money, they are doing it because they don't fit the traditional corporate mould. The people the media loves to focus on are the outliers. Schumpeter had some interesting insights on this: https://reactionwheel.net/2019/01/schumpeter-on-strategy.htm...

   Comment linking /2019/01/schumpeter-on-strategy.html

   on “After 3 Years, I Failed. Here's All My Startup's Code”
8. digisth · 2016-05-31

   Submitted Disruption is not a strategy as a story · 94 points

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9. grizzles · 2017-06-29Recommends

   Nice article & loved Kyle's article about the thorny issues surrounding customer acquisition. I grew up around the industry because my father worked his entire career in it. I've always found it fascinating. Actuarial science is so underrated. I'm also an entrepreneur and I've previously thought about entering it to disrupt it. If there is one thing I'd add to the main article it's this: If you look at the data vs a…

   Comment linking /2017/06/venture-follow-on-and-the-kelly-criterion.html

   on “Thoughts on Insurance”
10. allenleein · 2019-08-04

    Submitted AR will be startup dominated, VR will not as a story · 81 points

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11. skrebbel · 2017-10-22Recommends

    NYC-based angel investor Jerry Neumann calls this the "deployment age" and has a very nice, and somewhat prescient, write-up about it: http://reactionwheel.net/2015/10/the-deployment-age.html

    Comment linking /2015/10/the-deployment-age.html

    on “After the end of the startup era”
12. theyeti · 2015-03-02

    Submitted Venture Capital in the 1980s as a story · 78 points

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13. skrebbel · 2019-02-13

    Tyler, I've been very interested in this development and I have a somewhat fundamental question to you. I've seen a number of VCs and other pundits recently say things of the form "there's a reason why for decades, there were only bank loans and VC and not much in-between". Eg Jerry Neumann (a NY based solo investor) has a nice twitter rant about it here: https://twitter.com/ganeumann/status/1093961051425697794 If I…

    Comment linking /2019/01/why-do-vcs-insist-on-only-investing-in-high-risk-high-return-companies.html

    on “Earnest Capital is live”
14. pagade · 2019-09-21

    Submitted A Taxonomy of Moats as a story · 70 points

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15. goopthink · 2022-11-04

    The company board’s sole job is to hire and fire the CEO when appropriate: https://reactionwheel.net/2021/11/your-boards-of-directors-i... However, having been on a team that prepares board materials and also having presented to a company board, I can tell you that the information they receive is extremely carefully managed in a way that allows responsibility to seem to flow downwards rather than upwards. What you s…

    Comment linking /2021/11/your-boards-of-directors-is-probably-going-to-fire-you.html

    on “Many companies aren’t prepared to replace underperforming CEOs”
16. yurisagalov · 2019-11-13

    Submitted Heat Death: Venture Capital in the 1980s (2015) as a story · 67 points

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17. mooreds · 2016-07-20Recommends

    Worth reading as he talks about this exact issue: http://reactionwheel.net/2015/10/the-deployment-age.html We're headed into a deployment age w/r/t the internet, where bigger companies roll out solutions funded internally.

    Comment linking /2015/10/the-deployment-age.html

    on “Dollar Shave Club and the Disruption of Everything”
18. falicon · 2015-10-16

    Submitted The Deployment Age as a story · 62 points

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19. tonyedgecombe · 2023-12-27

    >I've run a few businesses over the years and the return of investment of self sufficiency is barely worth it in the long run. Most people aren't looking at it from the perspective of making a killing. They just want to get away from having a boss. For whatever reason they don't fit the corporate mould. Running their own show represents freedom. http://reactionwheel.net/2019/01/schumpeter-on-strategy.html

    Comment linking /2019/01/schumpeter-on-strategy.html

    on “2023: Focusing on a single product pays off”
20. tonyedgecombe · 2022-03-29

    Submitted Schumpeter on Strategy (2019) as a story · 54 points

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21. streetcat1 · 2019-12-18

    Why not. There are no sides here. There are different moats. If you want a more elaborate view: http://reactionwheel.net/2019/09/a-taxonomy-of-moats.html

    Comment linking /2019/09/a-taxonomy-of-moats.html

    on “A Failed SaaS Postmortem”
22. pw · 2015-01-18

    Submitted Heat Death: Venture Capital in the 1980s as a story · 41 points

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23. mooreds · 2025-03-22Recommends

    If you haven't read this classic about technology deployment from 2015, it's worth a read. https://reactionwheel.net/2015/10/the-deployment-age.html Feels like we're still in the exploration phase of GenAI, but ML seems like it is in the deployment phase.

    Comment linking /2015/10/the-deployment-age.html

    on “Most AI value will come from broad automation, not from R & D”
24. Brajeshwar · 2023-12-27

    Submitted Schumpeter on Strategy (2019) as a story · 39 points

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25. skrebbel · 2021-03-21

    Sounds to me like Ben agrees that we're now in the Deployment Age ( http://reactionwheel.net/2015/10/the-deployment-age.html ). I wonder if he also thinks that the VC model is a less good fit here.

    Comment linking /2015/10/the-deployment-age.html

    on “Outgrowing Software”
26. __Joker · 2015-01-13

    Submitted Who profits from innovation? Startups or incumbents? as a story · 32 points

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27. tonyedgecombe · 2021-07-07

    Overall that doesn't make much difference. The bottom decile of business owners makes much less and the top decile makes much more. The majority in the middle makes about the same as they would if they were an employee. http://reactionwheel.net/2019/01/schumpeter-on-strategy.html

    Comment linking /2019/01/schumpeter-on-strategy.html

    on “A theory that “elite overproduction” leads to political instability (2020)”
28. jasonlbaptiste · 2014-07-03

    Submitted Betting on the Ponies: non-Unicorn Investing as a story · 27 points

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29. mooreds · 2020-01-07

    The essay reminds me of The Deployment Age: http://reactionwheel.net/2015/10/the-deployment-age.html

    Comment linking /2015/10/the-deployment-age.html

    on “The End of the Beginning”
30. ganeumann · 2015-01-09

    Submitted Heat Death: Venture Capital in the 1980s as a story · 23 points

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