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Robert J. Pera

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Robert J. Pera's personal blog at rjpblog.com covers business and startups. Since 2012, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times, most often “Bootstrapping Strategies Part 1: The Compromise Between Today and Tomorrow”. The last post was in 2019, but the archive is still widely read.

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6mentions?
5HN people?
2012–2014first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 3 in 2012

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

Why HN links it

HN readers link this blog's post as a retrospective by the Ubiquiti founder on bootstrapping, cited as an example in a thread about bootstrapped billion-dollar companies.

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Most-linked posts?

  1. Bootstrapping Strategies Part 1: The Compromise Between Today and Tomorrow
    3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2012-06-13

What Hacker News says?

  1. Ubiquiti. The founder wrote a retrospective on it: http://www.rjpblog.com/2012/06/11/post-3-bootstrapping-strat...

    Comment linking /2012/06/11/post-3-bootstrapping-strategies-part-1-the-compromise-between-today-and-tomorrow/

    on “Ask HN: Do bootstrapped billion-dollar companies exist?”
  2. Submitted The Compromise between Today and Tomorrow (Ubiquiti CEO Robert Pera) as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  3. Submitted Bootstrapping Strategies Part 1: The Compromise Between Today and Tomorrow as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  4. Submitted Fatigue Makes Cowards of Us All as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  5. Submitted Ubiquiti Networks Founder on Information Asymmetry in Enterprise Sales as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  6. Submitted Commoditization and Leverage as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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