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Coconut Headsets

coconutheadsets.com · Personal blog · on HN since 2008

Coconut Headsets is a startup blog about fundraising, entrepreneurship and customer development, written from an entrepreneur's own experience.

What HN saysHN links it for the Backupify account of raising a million dollars without a business plan, and for first-hand angel investor event reports.
17HN people shared it
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    Be Careful When Discussing Your Competition
    2 people · 3 points · first shared 2012 · discussion on HN
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    The Dark Side of Customer Development and Lean Startups
    1 people · 59 points · first shared 2009 · 34 comments on HN
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    Entrepreneurship Is Not Sexy
    1 people · 48 points · first shared 2009 · 15 comments on HN
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    My Business Magazines Lied to Me
    1 people · 39 points · first shared 2008 · 8 comments on HN
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    Path Dependence of Startups
    1 people · 22 points · first shared 2009 · 7 comments on HN
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    How MicroPublishing Is Killing The Nuances of Knowledge
    1 people · 12 points · first shared 2009 · 9 comments on HN
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    Why You WANT VCs Who Ask Tough Questions
    1 people · 6 points · first shared 2010 · discussion on HN
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    The Counterintuitive Effects of Cancel Culture
    1 people · 5 points · first shared 2020 · 2 comments on HN
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    Sisyphus For Startups
    1 people · 3 points · first shared 2009 · discussion on HN
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    Startup Marketing in 2020
    1 people · 3 points · first shared 2020 · discussion on HN
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    Read the Paper: Don't Be a Victim of Algorithms
    1 people · 2 points · first shared 2020 · discussion on HN
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    Making Boston Awesome For Entrepreneurs
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What HN people wrote when they linked it

thiele · 2010-03-05
whoops, here's the link to the main article and not my comment, haha: http://coconutheadsets.com/2010/03/02/what-i-learned-raising-a-million…
dgallagher · 2010-02-05
Robert May favorably mentioned this on his blog here: http://coconutheadsets.com/2010/01/27/the-first-hand-experience-of-an-… They received some funding for http://www.backupify.com/, which allows you to backup/restore data from social websites (Facebook, Twitter, etc...).

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