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Rob Snyder
Personal blog · howtogrow.substack.comstartupsbusiness
Rob Snyder writes The Physics of Startups, a personal blog at howtogrow.substack.com about startups and business. Since 2025, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-30, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters link Rob Snyder's posts on the theories of sales, including buyer-pull and seller-push, and a follow-up on the physics of sales. The comments only point to the follow-up post and do not judge the writing.
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.
Why startups take off. Written by Rob Snyder, author of The Power of Pull, founder/advisor/etc.
What Hacker News says?
They followed up with another post to answer that question: https://howtogrow.substack.com/p/the-physics-of-sales-part-2
Comment linking /p/the-physics-of-sales-part-2
on “The buyer-pull and seller-push theories of sales”Submitted Where to find ideas as a story · 120 points
HN discussionSubmitted The buyer-pull and seller-push theories of sales as a story · 116 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Pull Framework as a story · 2 points
HN discussion