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Rowan Simpson
Personal blog · rowansimpson.comstartupsbusiness
Rowan Simpson's personal blog at rowansimpson.com covers startups and business. Since 2007, 13 different Hacker News readers have linked it 20 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-11-30, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Rowan Simpson's posts on SaaS business health, including the introduction to Dr. SaaS, a metrics and diagnosis tool, and a checklist for developing product ideas from real problems.
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.
Hello, I’m Rowan … Rowan Simpson I live in Aotearoa New Zealand. I am the chairman of Hoku Group, our family office, which combines our private investments, …
What Hacker News says?
And a blog post introducing Dr. SaaS: http://rowansimpson.com/2014/11/06/dr-saas/
Comment linking /2014/11/06/dr-saas/
on “Show HN: Dr. SaaS – Metrics and diagnosis for a healthier software business”Submitted Being founder centric as a story · 15 points
HN discussionPaul Graham wrote a post about ideas he'd like to see: http://ycombinator.com/ideas.html . My advice is to get out and about in your community, and find real problems. Then make something which solves (part of) that. Even better if it's a problem for you. It can be hard to stick with a project if you aren't using it yourself. Here's another great blog post, with a checklist to go through when an idea starts to form:…
Comment linking /2011/10/23/from-idea-to-impact/
on “Ask HN: How to find viable product or service ideas for small business ”Submitted Why you love your job as a story · 10 points
HN discussionHow? The banality of evil, cognitive dissonance and violence. The "banality of evil" [1] is term coined by Hannah Arendt when covering the trial of Adolf Eichmann who killed over a million Jews in the HOlocaust. She described Eichmann as an ordinary, bland bureaucrat who was (in his mind) advancing himself in the Nazi Party. The term has been exapnded to describe how disconnected most jobs are from their outcomes th…
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on “US tobacco firms applied tobacco strategies to globalize ultra-processed foods”Submitted Founders series: Lessons learned from starting a dev tools company as a story · 9 points
HN discussionSubmitted What is product management? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to Be a Good Dictator as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Mythical Startup « Rowan Simpson as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Size vs Growth vs Acceleration as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Reality Distortion Field as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Triage as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Pining for the fjords as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Inventor in a shed as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Thank You, Sir as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted You can’t invest in nothing as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Funding Options as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Visualise your audience as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Come in Wingman? (on failing fast) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Trade Me Manifesto: #8: Be informal but serious as a story · 1 points
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