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Venture Harbour
Company blog · ventureharbour.com · on HN as marcustaylorstartupsbusiness
Venture Harbour is the company blog at ventureharbour.com, writing about startups and business. Since 2013, 8 different Hacker News readers have linked it 11 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-29, 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 Venture Harbour for its charts and analysis of tech companies, such as the size of Google and Bing in search and a comparison of transactional email services. One commenter calls one article good.
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.
An Oxford-based automation software venture studio building ventures since 2012. We've built one venture a year for 14 years.
Most-linked posts?
- /visualising-size-google-bing-yahoo/3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2014-09-12
What Hacker News says?
Bing isn't even mentioned. There used to be a CEO of Bing (Qu Lu and Nadella had been in that slot) but last year, Bing was split up under 5 VPs; there's no longer a real Bing organization. It's strange. Bing has 20% market search share under its own name, plus 13% under the Yahoo brand. That's 33%. Google has 64%, so Bing is now more than half the size of Google in terms of searches. That's OK market share; it's li…
Comment linking /visualising-size-google-bing-yahoo/
on “Microsoft Shakes Up Its Leadership and Internal Structure”Submitted Music streaming platforms' audience sizes compared as a story · 3 points
HN discussion>Running a search engine is so profitable... 2005-2013 Microsoft online services, including Bing lost $10.9bn [1] and "continue to report a loss of $1.3bn/year" [2] as of early 2014. I think people are projecting breakeven 2016. Competing with Google is not easy. [1] http://www.businessinsider.com/microsoft-reorg-earnings-repo... [2] https://www.ventureharbour.com/visualising-size-google-bing-...
Comment linking /visualising-size-google-bing-yahoo/
on “Google Loses Most US Search Share Since 2009 While Yahoo Gains”Submitted 19 Implications of Google Glass on Marketing as a story · 2 points
HN discussionYahoo doesn't "barely" make money. $1.3bn to be exact.[0] You're right, Bing is subsidized, but it's not like their revenues are $0. I appreciated your effort to add to the conversation, but "They barely do make money." followed by "Is anyone making significant money out of search" doesn't add much to the discussion. [0] https://www.ventureharbour.com/visualising-size-google-bing-...
Comment linking /visualising-size-google-bing-yahoo/
on “Peter Thiel: Competition is for losers”Submitted The ultimate Startup Marketing Strategy as a story · 2 points
HN discussionI had never explored Mandrill, thanks. SES is still the cheapest (especially when scaling up) and extremely fast from my experience with it. Here is a good article I found about SES and competitors such as Mandrill: http://www.ventureharbour.com/transactional-email-service-be...
Comment linking /transactional-email-service-best-mandrill-vs-sendgrid-vs-mailjet/
on “Amazon, a Friendly Giant as Long as It’s Fed”Submitted Google roll out Panda 4.0 as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Which Email Marketing Software is Best? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted How six well-known blogs grew to millions of visitors in under 2 years as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Ultimate Startup Marketing Strategy as a story · 1 points
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