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Slidebean Blog
Company blog · slidebean.com/blogbusinessstartups
Slidebean Blog is the company blog at slidebean.com, writing about business and startups. Since 2014, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 7 times, most often “The REAL cost of content marketing: turning $70K into $200K”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-08-27, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Slidebean's blog for startup material such as a company story on Zoom and pitch deck references, including Facebook's original pitch deck and a YC seed deck template.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
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Most-linked posts?
- The REAL cost of content marketing: turning $70K into $200K2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2016-09-20
What Hacker News says?
That's essentially how Zoom was built. Eric Yuan took everything he learned from supporting WebEx and built a new company and product that does the same thing as WebEx. https://slidebean.com/blog/startups-zoom-company-story-eric-...
Comment linking /blog/startups-zoom-company-story-eric-yuan-skype
on “Replit used legal threats to kill my open-source project”Submitted The REAL cost of content marketing: turning $70K into $200K as a story · 3 points
HN discussionOther references for pitchdecks: The statistically recommended pitch deck breakdown: https://docsend.com/view/p8jxsqr The original FaceBook pitch deck, including a keg stand: https://slidebean.com/blog/startups/facebook-pitch-deck
Comment linking /blog/startups/facebook-pitch-deck
on “YC Seed Deck Template”Submitted The REAL cost of content marketing: turning $70K into $200K as a story · 1 points
HN discussionUnrelated, but too late to comment on your prior “Show HN” - you should check out Slidebean, since it appears to do what you described: - https://slidebean.com/ They also have a YouTube for startups in general to drive traffic: - https://m.youtube.com/channel/UC4bq21IPPbpu0Qrsl7LW0sw
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on “Ask HN: Founders who went through VC funding, what was the hardest thing?”Submitted Slidebean, Instagram for presentations, to give Prezi a run for its money as a story · 1 points
HN discussionYou'll likely have much better results if you: (1) Target your pitch more by joining specific niche communities in your vertical, get to know people there, and ask one of them who is well-connected to get you an introduction, which will allow you to give them a verbal elevator pitch. If they like it then you can send them a pitch deck. (2) If you still want to do a broadcast style pitch on here, put your elevator pi…
Comment linking /blog/startups-pitch-deck-examples
on “Someone would like to be my angel investor?”