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savagethoughts.com
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savagethoughts.com is a personal blog at savagethoughts.com about startups, business and culture. Since 2010, 12 different Hacker News readers have linked it 29 times, most often “Making ideas work by Wistia.com founder”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Chris Savage's posts, including one on the struggle of getting noticed and the idea of validation, when discussing startups, competitors and naming. Commenters cite them as support.
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.
Most-linked posts?
- Making ideas work by Wistia.com founder2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2010-11-16
What Hacker News says?
This is a great point and something that has been debated extensively over here. I've got a blog post coming to explain our reasoning. (edit) Here's my fresh blog post: http://savagethoughts.com/post/3772138359/whats-in-a-name
Comment linking /post/3772138359/whats-in-a-name
on “ What do you think of our new team page? (type "dance" for party mode)”Submitted How a friend outsourced his apartment hunt (and saved 30 hours) as a story · 86 points
HN discussion"A few hours (and a pity party) later, I realized that this isn’t the end of the world. The concept has been validated" This is an important realisation. Just because there is someone else already doing something isn't a reason not to do it. It seems like this affliction is curious to software, and possibly more pronounced in web based software. In his post entitled "Making Ideas Work"[1], Chris Savage (CEO of Wisti…
Comment linking /post/1591677111
on “How HackerNews ruined my morning”Submitted Stop Measuring Everything as a story · 44 points
HN discussionI'm always a little surprised when these articles don't mention wistia.com as a Vidyard predecessor and competitor. I guess Chris was right when he said it's really hard to get people to notice you[1]! [1] http://savagethoughts.com/post/1591677111/making-ideas-work
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on “Vidyard’s (YC S11) video service just one-upped every competitor”Submitted Your brand is not your logo or color scheme, it’s how people think about you as a story · 43 points
HN discussionSubmitted Dear Continental Airlines, you have a broken funnel as a story · 42 points
HN discussionSubmitted Ride the inbox zero train as a story · 27 points
HN discussionSubmitted 10 Ideas For Those Critical Early Startup Sales as a story · 24 points
HN discussionSubmitted Making ideas work by Wistia.com founder as a story · 20 points
HN discussionSubmitted Surprise and delight: The secret to creating evangelists as a story · 16 points
HN discussionSubmitted You Can Be an Expert at Anything as a story · 13 points
HN discussionSubmitted SaaS vs. Advertising based business models as a story · 11 points
HN discussionSubmitted Trust in T-Shirts as a story · 8 points
HN discussionSubmitted Have a strong company culture or Fail as a story · 7 points
HN discussionSubmitted Customer Experience Should Be King as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Great Leaders Say “I Don’t Know” as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted What I’ve Learned about My Company and Myself from 2 Paternity Leaves as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Can Businesses Please Take More Emotional Risks? as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Market Where You Have No Competition as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Show and Tell as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Being Busy Doesn’t Mean You’re Successful as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Confronting Entrepreneurial Fears as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The value of time in pricing as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted High Intensity Interval Growth for Startups as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Match Your Tone to Your Message as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to Grow Faster by Hiring Slower as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Networker's Dilemma as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Please prescribe a best path for your product as a story · 1 points
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