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Sean on Startups

Personal blog · seanonstartups.costartupsbusiness

Sean on Startups is a personal blog at seanonstartups.co about startups and business. Since 2014, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 62 times, most often “Backwards, Thinking”. The last post was in 2022, but the archive is still widely read.

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2014–2017first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 44 in 2014

Thoughts on startups, products and venture investing in Silicon Valley.

Most-linked posts?

  1. Backwards, Thinking
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2015-10-29
  2. The Three Most Important Words
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2015-11-11

What Hacker News says?

  1. ares2012 · 2014-01-10

    Submitted Everyone is Successful, Except for You as a story · 8 points

    HN discussion
  2. ares2012 · 2014-07-08

    Submitted Reverse Pitching as a story · 6 points

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  3. lpolovets · 2017-07-25

    Submitted Problem-Market Fit as a story · 4 points

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  4. ares2012 · 2015-07-29

    Submitted The Myth of Software-as-a-Service as a story · 4 points

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  5. ares2012 · 2014-05-22

    Submitted Your Three Types of Customers as a story · 4 points

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  6. abreckle · 2015-11-11

    Submitted The Three Most Important Words as a story · 3 points

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  7. ares2012 · 2015-04-08

    Submitted The Founder’s Schedule as a story · 3 points

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  8. ares2012 · 2014-11-12

    Submitted The Founder Spectrum as a story · 3 points

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  9. ares2012 · 2014-11-05

    Submitted Why You Don't Want to Be Acquired as a story · 3 points

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  10. ares2012 · 2014-04-01

    Submitted Financing: A Tale of Three Companies as a story · 3 points

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  11. ares2012 · 2014-03-06

    Submitted The Difference Between Impossible and Really, Really Hard as a story · 3 points

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  12. ares2012 · 2014-01-08

    Submitted Never Play Fair, you have to Cheat to Win as a story · 3 points

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  13. gwintrob · 2015-10-29

    Submitted Backwards, Thinking as a story · 2 points

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  14. ares2012 · 2015-10-29

    Submitted Backwards, Thinking as a story · 2 points

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  15. ares2012 · 2015-08-05

    Submitted Selling Your Company as a story · 2 points

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  16. ares2012 · 2014-12-30

    Submitted Performance reviews that don't suck as a story · 2 points

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  17. ares2012 · 2014-09-18

    Submitted The Art of Being Unreasonable as a story · 2 points

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  18. ares2012 · 2014-09-16

    Submitted Closing the Loop as a story · 2 points

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  19. ares2012 · 2014-08-14

    Submitted Why Working More Hours Doesn't Make You More Productive as a story · 2 points

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  20. ares2012 · 2014-07-15

    Submitted The Profitability Challenge as a story · 2 points

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  21. ares2012 · 2014-05-16

    Submitted What Investors See When They Look At You as a story · 2 points

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  22. dunkinkevin · 2014-03-18

    Submitted Confidence vs. Arrogance as a story · 2 points

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  23. ares2012 · 2014-03-13

    Submitted Negotiation Made Easy as a story · 2 points

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  24. ares2012 · 2014-02-18

    Submitted Competition: Only the Paranoid Survive as a story · 2 points

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  25. ares2012 · 2014-02-12

    Submitted The Most Important Equation for Your Startup as a story · 2 points

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  26. ares2012 · 2014-01-23

    Submitted 5 metrics to run your business as a story · 2 points

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  27. ares2012 · 2014-01-19

    Submitted Set Your Goal Before You Begin as a story · 2 points

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  28. ares2012 · 2014-01-16

    Submitted Why no one will invest in you as a story · 2 points

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  29. ares2012 · 2016-01-07

    Submitted Outside In as a story · 1 points

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  30. ares2012 · 2015-11-17

    Submitted When Customers Attack as a story · 1 points

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