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stubbleblog.com is a personal blog at stubbleblog.com about startups and business. Since 2007, 14 different Hacker News readers have linked it 22 times, most often “Tony Stubblebine on how Odeo gave birth to Twitter and took over the world”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (7) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog's posts on startups and venture funding, the Odeo team's history and its role in Twitter's start, deliberate practice, and productivity tips.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 7 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Tony Stubblebine on how Odeo gave birth to Twitter and took over the world2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2009-06-18
- Take the Next Step, Paul2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2008-03-21
- Deliberate Practice2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2008-05-08
What Hacker News says?
Paul, I think you need to take the next step here which is getting out of the venture business. The whole venture industry is based on your startup founders becoming bosses or being acquired by companies with bosses. Even if they end up rich afterward, the availability of the money is directly tied to other programmers getting duped into working unnaturally (with bosses). Have you considered leading your startups to…
Comment linking /index.php/2008/03/take-the-next-step-paul/
on “You weren't meant to have a boss”Submitted Advice for a young entrepreneur as a story · 79 points
HN discussionWhen they knew Odeo didn't have enough traction: http://www.stubbleblog.com/index.php/2009/06/the-real-lesson...
Comment linking /index.php/2009/06/the-real-lessons-from-twitter/
on “How not to die”Submitted Take the Next Step, Paul as a story · 65 points
HN discussionI switched laptops last November and have been having a Linux just works experience ever since. Previously I'd been on a System76 pre-installed linux laptop where I was paying them to make sure it works. This time I just walked into best buy and walked out with a dell and installed everything myself. All hardware worked out of the box including wireless and suspend. I started reading OMG Ubuntu ( http://omgubuntu.co…
Comment linking /index.php/2009/11/linux-on-the-desktop/
on “Alex Payne — Good Things: Ubuntu and Android”Submitted Tony Stubblebine on how Odeo gave birth to Twitter and took over the world as a story · 56 points
HN discussionI think this does a pretty good job covering it: http://www.stubbleblog.com/index.php/2008/05/deliberate-prac... You have a valid point - it would be great if you can buy books per page - especially compilations. Maybe there's an opportunity for someone.
Comment linking /index.php/2008/05/deliberate-practice/
on “The Mundanity of Excellence ”Submitted Product. Conversion. Scale as a story · 37 points
HN discussionOh, I have a rant. I have trouble hanging up on telemarketers who prey on entrepreneurs (VC associates, recruiters, biz dev, consulting firms). My problem was that hanging up violently put me in a violent mood. So I went as far as writing up scripts that were polite but moved toward hanging up within 10 seconds. Full rant/solution here: http://www.stubbleblog.com/index.php/2009/03/productivity-ha... Why did you ask…
Comment linking /index.php/2009/03/productivity-hack-hangup-politely/
on “Ask HN: What small problems do you face frequently?”Submitted Commodity Web Startups (personal reflections on a web startup's fundraising) as a story · 34 points
HN discussionI tackled that exact question in a post about my experience on the Odeo team at the start of Twitter. My conclusion was that the phrasing was wrong. What matters most for a product? Market. What matters most for a company? Team. Odeo the product failed because there was no market for it. Odeo the company produced a great win with Twitter because it had the right team to do something like that. A little more depth he…
Comment linking /index.php/2009/06/the-real-lessons-from-twitter/
on “How First Round Capital missed out on Twitter's first round.”Submitted What is success? Impact. as a story · 25 points
HN discussionI'd never seen a good XSS hack up close but our beta got hit pretty hard by a viral XSS. It automatically added everyone as a friend and then non-destructively inserted itself into your profile. What scared me most was that the javascript was so readable and looked like something I could write. I saved it: http://www.stubbleblog.com/foocamp_xss_hack.js.txt If you're programming in rails I'd recommend sanitize_params…
Comment linking /foocamp_xss_hack.js.txt
on “Cross-site scripting explained”Submitted Deliberate Practice as a story · 23 points
HN discussionSubmitted My 2012 Resolution: Awesome Mornings as a story · 10 points
HN discussionSubmitted What is success? Impact. as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted 273 things as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Experiments in Human Potential as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Dear Successful People: Occupy Wall Street as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Social Workshop - A lifetime of products as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Secrets of Productivity as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Experiments in Software Services as a story · 1 points
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