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Tom Evslin
Personal blog · blog.tomevslin.combusinessstartupseconomics
Tom Evslin writes Blog Archive Index, a personal blog at blog.tomevslin.com about business, startups and economics. Since 2007, 25 different Hacker News readers have linked it 34 times, most often “Web 2.0 -- Greater Initial Investments Required”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Most-linked posts?
- Web 2.0 -- Greater Initial Investments Required2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2007-04-03
- Why we need bubbles (2005)2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2016-08-04
- When your company should spend2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2008-10-22
- Microsoft Memories on Fractals of Change2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2007-05-02
What Hacker News says?
The essay itself is general and surprising, and the combination never loses its effectiveness. Ideas keep evolving. There was nothing new about the idea of a search engine when Google came into existence in 1998. In 1945, Dr. Vannevar Bush wrote an article titled As We May Think: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1945/07/as-we-m... > he urges that men of science should then turn to the massive task of mak…
Comment linking /2006/01/search_down_mem.html
on “General and Surprising”Submitted Website runs all in S3, no server. as a story · 61 points
HN discussionFWIW, Tom Evslin made a similar point: " So, if you’re just now starting up, don’t get blinded by the successes of the first people to realize a platform could be built and operated on the cheap. You already missed that wave. Now, unless you are extraordinarily lucky or well-connected, you aren’t going to succeed in publicizing your new service and getting up to a critical mass of content or subscribers or both unle…
Comment linking /2007/01/web_20_greater_.html
on “James Siminoff: I would create a fully self contained incubator”Submitted America’s Industrial Revival as a story · 12 points
HN discussionFWIW, here's a contradictory take, also seen on YC news recently: http://blog.tomevslin.com/2007/01/web_20_greater_.html
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on “30 Ways to Promote your Web App with Little or No Money”Submitted Too Much Revenue, Not Enough Growth as a story · 11 points
HN discussionThat story sure brings Gates down another few notches in my book It seems he was a bully, too, at least in the early days: http://blog.tomevslin.com/2007/05/microsoft_memor.html Then again, most people probably don't care, given Microsoft's financial results.
Comment linking /2007/05/microsoft_memor.html
on “A Thousand Lines of Code Per Week”Submitted TAC to FCC: Set a Date Certain for the End of the PSTN as a story · 8 points
HN discussionLink to the post he refers to: http://blog.tomevslin.com/2008/10/when-your-compa.html
Comment linking /2008/10/when-your-compa.html
on “Fred Wilson: Cash Is Only King If You Use It”Submitted Morph of a Nerd CEO - How Hard Will You Work? as a story · 8 points
HN discussionSubmitted Hardnosed negotiation HOWTO for hackers. as a story · 7 points
HN discussionSubmitted California Shows How *Not* to Deal with Climate Change as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted When Angels Fear to Tread as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why a Great Programmer Is Worth Fifty Good Ones as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Amazon S3 – Backstory for Nerds – Part 2 as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Being First IS The Business Plan as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted OpenSocial - Developer's View as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Microsoft Memories on Fractals of Change as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Web 2.0 -- Greater Initial Investments Required as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Yuk, Selling (Fractals of Change/Nerd CEO blog) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Great New Product Ideas – Don't Ask the Users What They Want (2005) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why we need bubbles (2005) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why we need bubbles as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Don’t Watch The Dow as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Moore’s Law and Medicine: Why We Should Be Spending More as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted US Broadband Stymied By Stimulus Application and Award Process as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Maybe we don't need so much credit as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The White Space Opportunity - Priceless as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted When your company should spend as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Invent, Baby, Invent as a story · 1 points
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