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betashop.com · Personal blog · on HN since 2009
Jason Goldberg, founder of Fab, writes about starting and running tech companies, with lessons for startup CEOs.
What HN saysCommenters call it a surprisingly open blog about his company's progress and list it among recommended startup blogs.
30HN people shared it
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Most-shared posts
- 1When to Change Your Game: The fab.com story & Tips for Tech Entrepreneurs4 people · 22 points · first shared 2011 · 5 comments on HN
- 2Things I Learned From Founding Technology Companies3 people · 436 points · first shared 2012 · 44 comments on HN
- 3What I've Learned Founding 3 Tech Companies | betashop2 people · 79 points · first shared 2010 · 14 comments on HN
- 4Viewpoint: CEO = Product Manager2 people · 29 points · first shared 2011 · 10 comments on HN
- 5Betashop Quarterly. Volume 1. January 2014.2 people · 6 points · first shared 2014 · discussion on HN
- 6Homepage2 people · first shared 2011
- 7Things You Must Do Every Week As Startup CEO1 people · 157 points · first shared 2011 · 22 comments on HN
- 8How Fab Raised $40 million with a lot of data and not much pain1 people · 89 points · first shared 2011 · 19 comments on HN
- 9Who needs angel financing/help? Testing hacker news for this purpose.1 people · 59 points · first shared 2009 · 39 comments on HN
- 10It’s a fucking startup. Why are you here?1 people · 56 points · first shared 2014 · 26 comments on HN
- 11Fab's Second Pivot1 people · 44 points · first shared 2012 · 36 comments on HN
- 12Startup Office Hours?1 people · 42 points · first shared 2011 · 21 comments on HN
- 13What It's Really Like To Work At Fab1 people · 40 points · first shared 2013 · 38 comments on HN
- 14Fab & Custora calculate the the lifetime value of an iPad (customer)1 people · 39 points · first shared 2012 · 16 comments on HN
- 15The only question your startup needs to answer: What’s your one thing?1 people · 39 points · first shared 2011 · 21 comments on HN
What HN people wrote when they linked it
minouye · 2013-11-04
Jason Goldberg of Fab blogs regularly at http://betashop.com/ and is surprisingly open about his company and its progress.
jonbischke · 2012-10-06
Please edit this link to the following:
http://betashop.com/post/32913573235/90-things-ive-learned-from-foundi…
As soon as Betashop posts again to their blog it will start to get confusing.
r0h1t4sh · 2014-04-22
In response to this http://betashop.com/post/83511727379/lets-talk-about-risk-startupturna…
betashop · 2013-06-26
What it's really like to work at any fast growing startup.
http://betashop.com/post/53908788656/what-its-really-like-to-work-at-a…
bosky101 · 2011-05-27
IMHO
http://betashop.com/ by jason goldberg
http://www.gabrielweinberg.com/blog/ founder of duckduckgo
http://blogmaverick.com/ by Mark Cuban
http://blog.pmarca.com/ Marc Andreesen's blog ( again start from the older posts)
http://avc.com "MBA mondays" by Fred Wilson( i get emailed as chapters via dailylit )
http://www.joelonsoftware.com/
http://onstartups.com/ by dharmesh shah of hubspot
http://www.bothsidesofthetable.com/ by mark suster
"startup site:http://calacanis.com/ " ( on google to find good older posts while Jason Calacanis used to blog )
http://lsvp.wordpress.com
http://www.chubbybrain.com/
http://tom.preston-werner.com/
apart from 37 signals, venturehacks, & lean startup blogs.
~B
hownottowrite · 2014-03-24
Suggested alternate title:
"Nice $40M ecommerce company - call me when it scales and I can profit obscenely while strapping you with loads of debt and/or other unwanted obligations/management advice so that you end up firing half of your staff after doing the thing I made you do because I now control the board."
From the "other" Fab:
http://betashop.com/post/72547337624/betashop-quarterly-volume-1-janua…
On a personal level I took some justifiable hits in 2013. That goes with the territory when you raise money at $1B and then cut headcount and operating expenses as dramatically and swiftly as I did. I freely admit, when you grow revenue 500% year over year and become a media darling overnight, it’s hard to keep perspective. No doubt, we had lost perspective at Fab. We had started to dream in billions when we should have been focused on making one day simply better than the one before it.