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Waseem Daher
Personal blog · waseem.substack.comstartupsbusiness
Waseem Daher writes Startup Real Talk, a personal blog at waseem.substack.com about startups and business. Since 2021, 8 different Hacker News readers have linked it 39 times, most often “Don't start a tech-enabled service”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-06-18, and you can follow it by feed.
War stories and tactical advice for startup founders.
Most-linked posts?
- Don't start a tech-enabled service2 people · 7 mentions · first linked 2023-09-20
What Hacker News says?
It's a fairly capital-intensive business. Here's my best articulation of specifically what makes it hard: https://waseem.substack.com/p/tech-enabled-services
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on “Bench accounting services shutting down”Submitted You can't have too many angels as a story · 111 points
HN discussionIt’s 100% about wanting to work with a great team on a big problem. It’s not that the domain doesn’t matter, it’s that it just matters less than you think (for me, anyway.) Not to shill my own stuff too much here, but I wrote a bit about this here: https://waseem.substack.com/p/will-your-startup-make-you-hap...
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on “Avoiding Founder Burnout”Submitted Avoiding Founder Burnout as a story · 84 points
HN discussionSubmitted Scalability Is Overrated as a story · 55 points
HN discussionSubmitted Tactical advice for finding startup ideas as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted A Startup Has to Be Inevitable as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Debugging your startup when it isn't working as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Don't get distracted by fake work as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Competitors Don't Matter as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted A rule for email: only do one thing per email as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Just Refund Them as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Don't start a tech-enabled services startup as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Don't start a tech-enabled service as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Don’t Accidentally Steer the Ship as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Everything Is a Process Problem as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Founding three companies together without killing each other as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Getting busy people to help you as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Picking the Right Investors as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why You Shouldn’t Start a Startup as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Avoiding Founder Burnout as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Don't start a tech-enabled services startup as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Don't start a tech-enabled service as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Be a rocketship or leave a big crater as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Don't start a tech-enabled services startup as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Don't start a tech-enabled service as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Being a Founder Kinda Sucks as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Managing Your Psychology as a Founder as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Avoiding the Slow No as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Navigating the Downturn as a story · 1 points
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