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Tomasz Tunguz

Personal blog · tomasztunguz.com · on HN as ttunguzstartupsbusiness

Tomasz Tunguz's personal blog at tomasztunguz.com covers startups and business. Since 2010, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 172 times, most often “Crowd Funding and Venture Capital”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-11-02, and you can follow it by feed.

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172mentions?
5HN people?
2010–2012first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 93 in 2012

Venture capitalist and former Google PM sharing data-driven insights on building successful startups. Join 100K+ founders and investors learning about tech & SaaS.

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ttunguz · 1,624 karma · member since 2010

I work at Theory, an early stage VC fund. Formerly a PM at Google working on AdSense. I blog at tomasztunguz.com and @ttunguz.

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Most-linked posts?

  1. Crowd Funding and Venture Capital
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2012-08-16

What Hacker News says?

  1. Social protocols are replacing RSS. In my view, Twitter and Facebook are better versions of RSS. First, they reach many more people. It’s easier to “follow” something than to subscribe to an RSS feed (has a bit of a medical ring to it, no?). Second, these social streams provide an additional social filter to the news, something that RSS news never did. These social filters also provide a layer to comment, share and…

    Comment linking /2012/04/19/rss-is-dead-social-streams-have-killed-it/

    on “The War On RSS ”
  2. Submitted Your startup’s top priorities. as a story · 87 points

    HN discussion
  3. Android does a good job of this with intents. Google is also bringing this standard to the browser. It's an elegant way to solve this problem http://tomasztunguz.com/2011/08/30/liberating-user-data-with...

    Comment linking /2011/08/30/liberating-user-data-with-intents/

    on “The disappearing file system and the new UI metaphor”
  4. Submitted The two ways to build a product, according to Bezos as a story · 61 points

    HN discussion
  5. Submitted The essence of a startup as a story · 35 points

    HN discussion
  6. Submitted Apple’s gaming user is worth 10 times as much as Facebook’s gaming user as a story · 11 points

    HN discussion
  7. Submitted 20 years is too long for patent protection as a story · 11 points

    HN discussion
  8. Submitted New York Startups: True Grit as a story · 11 points

    HN discussion
  9. Submitted The disappearing file system and the new UI metaphor as a story · 8 points

    HN discussion
  10. Submitted What got you here on Apple, won’t get you there on Android as a story · 8 points

    HN discussion
  11. Submitted Reflections from Google IO as a story · 7 points

    HN discussion
  12. Submitted Clay Shirky on Social Reading as a story · 6 points

    HN discussion
  13. Submitted Your Startup's 10 Most Important Metrics as a story · 5 points

    HN discussion
  14. Submitted Startup Judo – What to know when starting a company as a story · 5 points

    HN discussion
  15. Submitted The 7 questions you should answer in your pitch deck as a story · 5 points

    HN discussion
  16. Submitted Everything you know about brainstorming is wrong as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  17. Submitted The Most Important Founder Qualification as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  18. Submitted The best software is like customer service as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  19. Submitted The missing manual: why great startups can begin as features « ex post facto as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  20. Submitted There has never been a better time to start a company as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  21. Submitted Beautiful, simple charts as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  22. Submitted Crowd Funding and Venture Capital as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  23. Submitted Tweet Me. Like Me. Love Me. Buy Me. as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  24. Submitted Skyrocketing Median Pre Money Valuations as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  25. Submitted How the fund raising markets are changing as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  26. Submitted Anatomy of a reference check as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  27. Submitted From data to disruption as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  28. Submitted Because of Machine Learning, Android is better than iOS as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  29. Submitted When is the right time to raise: on dreams or with data? as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  30. Submitted A startup’s three visions as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion

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