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Reaction Wheel

Personal blog · reactionwheel.blogspot.comstartupseconomics

Reaction Wheel is a personal blog at reactionwheel.blogspot.com about startups and economics. Since 2010, 12 different Hacker News readers have linked it 16 times. The last post was in 2020, but the archive is still widely read.

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12HN people?
2010–2013first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 5 in 2013

Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

HN commenters point to Jerry Neumann's blog for writing on online advertising, including a piece on advertising fallacies and a curated list of ad-tech links. It is also listed among blogs on online advertising.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

What Hacker News says?

  1. skrebbel · 2011-07-13Recommends
    You might appreciate what Jerry Neumann has to say about that: http://reactionwheel.blogspot.com/2011/04/advertising-fallac... Short quote: "In that case, if I put an ad in front of someone, and that person decides to click it, then I must be solving a very difficult problem indeed. ", but the article is best read entirely.

    Comment linking /2011/04/advertising-fallacy-of-perfectibility.html

    on “Why I left Google. What happened to my book. What I work on at Facebook. ”
  2. Submitted A Mechanism for VC deal transparency as a story · 7 points

    HN discussion
  3. All friends and acquaintances: http://reactionwheel.blogspot.com/ http://www.cogmap.com/blog/ http://mikeonads.com (sporadically updated but good) http://ecpmblog.wordpress.com/

    Comment linking /

    on “Ask HN: what are some good blogs about online advertising?”
  4. Submitted Pace of VC Investing By Subsector as a story · 5 points

    HN discussion
  5. mattgratt · 2012-05-28Recommends
    This set of links from Jerry Neumann is pretty useful - http://reactionwheel.blogspot.com/2010/08/online-ad-tech-cur...

    Comment linking /2010/08/online-ad-tech-curriculum-links.html

    on “Ask HN: What's a good primer on online advertising?”
  6. Submitted Who Coinvests With Whom? The Venture Coinvestment Map as a story · 5 points

    HN discussion
  7. Submitted What do Angel Investors do all day? as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  8. Submitted Your personal data is not worth anywhere near what you think it's worth as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  9. Submitted The Bubble This Time as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  10. Submitted Hitting the tropopause [Google & Apple strategy] as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  11. Submitted You Can't Learn from Failure, You Can Only Learn from Success as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  12. Submitted Why making people click ads matters as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  13. Submitted Data on the pace of ad technology investing as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  14. Submitted On Corporate VC as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  15. Submitted Venture Capital Family Tree as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  16. Submitted What if online doesn't work for branding? as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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