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Seth Bannon
Personal blog · sethbannon.com · on HN as sethbannonstartupsbusiness
Seth Bannon's personal blog at sethbannon.com covers startups and business. Since 2013, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 23 times, most often “Mistakes You Should Never Make”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2024-11-06, 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 Seth Bannon's posts on founder mistakes and on vacations, mostly as context in threads about his CEO/CFO and subscriber-loss posts.
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.
Startups, technology, science, history of entrepreneurship.
Most-linked posts?
- Mistakes You Should Never Make3 people · 7 mentions · first linked 2014-07-24
- Biotech in the Garage3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2015-07-07
- “Vacations are for the weak”2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2014-01-02
What Hacker News says?
Not Your Typical CTO Position - Amicus (YC S12) Is Hiring This is not your typical CTO position. You’ll be joining a social good startup that is just recovering from a near death moment. Read about it here: http://sethbannon.com/mistakes-you-should-never-make If you find these sorts of challenges interesting and you want to join a mission-driven company, read on. -- About Us -- Amicus is a social good startup based…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2014)”Submitted Mistakes You Should Never Make as a story · 646 points
HN discussionI wrote about some of the technical advancements driving these changes here: http://sethbannon.com/biotech-in-the-garage Note: this post is 4 years old so somewhat out of date.
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on “How Biotech Startup Funding Will Change in the Next 10 Years”Submitted “Vacations are for the weak” as a story · 486 points
HN discussionThing is you don't necessarily need a CFO early on. What you do need, though, is an accountant. Even ignoring possible financial penalties, the cost is low enough that it is likely a net financial positive. A founder unfamiliar w/ accounting will spend longer trying to accomplish the same tasks, and is wasting time that could more productively be spent elsewhere. How did nobody balance the books at all in 3 years? H…
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on “CEO Cost Amicus $500k”Submitted Biotech in the Garage as a story · 77 points
HN discussionThis seems like just a rehash of Seth's own blog post: http://sethbannon.com/mistakes-you-should-never-make
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on “CEO Cost Amicus $500k”Submitted Paul Graham Thinks You Should Exercise as a story · 61 points
HN discussionThanks so much for the empathetic and kind comments. And I'm so happy to hear I played a small part in your business! I'd love to hear more. For those that don't know, as a first time founder and CEO I made a large number of mistakes I wish I hadn't. In retrospect, they seem bone headed but none of it was clear at the time. I wrote about those mistakes so others might avoid making them [1]. Unfortunately that blog p…
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on “CEO Cost Amicus $500k”Submitted Startup Solidarity as a story · 50 points
HN discussionIt's been the case in nearly every industry that the "small and nimble upstart" rarely wins. Until they do. Biotech the seems ripe for the same sort of nimble innovation we've seen in software and hardware over the last couple decades. Wrote a bit about this here: http://www.sethbannon.com/biotech-in-the-garage
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on “Verge Genomics (YC S15) Wants to Cure Neurodegenerative Diseases with Algorithms”Submitted The dangerous allure of the “Billion Dollar Startup Club” as a story · 47 points
HN discussionThe above linked article is a sensationalist hit piece that's riddled with factual inaccuracies -- about my family, about Amicus, and about me. It adds nothing of substance to the blog post I already wrote about the mistakes I made ( http://sethbannon.com/mistakes-you-should-never-make ). The reporter grossly sensationalized the story for clicks which, unfortunately, is all too common a practice in the journalism in…
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on “Startup Solidarity”Submitted Disrupting New Domains as a story · 31 points
HN discussionIf your point is that I'm sensitive to journalists looking for takedowns given that I feel I was the target of one, you're absolutely right. But how is your comment relevant to the article originally posted? And why the throwaway account? For those curious, the article above was published after I wrote a blog post on my mistakes here: http://sethbannon.com/mistakes-you-should-never-make
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on “How Hampton Creek sold investors on fake mayo”Submitted The Times, They Are A-Changin' as a story · 20 points
HN discussionTrying to take as objective a view here as possible... The present hacker zeitgeist disagrees with your viewpoint. Your post came at a particularly bad time, as this post is fresh on the collective's mind: http://sethbannon.com/vacations-are-for-the-weak
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on “Ask HN: Why did this post cost me 10% of subscribers?”Submitted Startups are like blitz chess as a story · 2 points
HN discussionHe writes that "no business is safe at this point." I disagree and actually wrote my first blog post in 8 years today explaining why: https://www.sethbannon.com/p/defensibility-in-the-age-of-ai
Comment linking /p/defensibility-in-the-age-of-ai
on “Keeping up with the overwhelming pace of AI innovation”Submitted Create the data, control your future as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Biotech in the Garage as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Building in atoms vs. bits doesn't mean slower growth as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Defensibility in the Age of AI as a story · 1 points
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