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Jessica Mah
jessicamah.com · Personal blog · on HN since 2008
Jessica Mah is a startup founder who writes about entrepreneurship, running a company, and raising money.
What HN saysOpinion is mixed: one commenter suggests contacting her for advice, while another dismisses her business advice as fluff from someone with little experience.
16HN people shared it
5linked it in comments
16stories submitted
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Most-shared posts
- 1The CEO's job2 people · 106 points · first shared 2011 · 37 comments on HN
- 2Why 99% of Entrepreneurs Fail: Because they don't do anything2 people · 94 points · first shared 2009 · 61 comments on HN
- 3Self Confidence2 people · 7 points · first shared 2010 · 1 comments on HN
- 4Homepage2 people · first shared 2009
- 5How much money should my company raise?1 people · 108 points · first shared 2011 · 58 comments on HN
- 6Your business idea sucks, and it's your job to figure out why1 people · 23 points · first shared 2009 · 22 comments on HN
- 7Raising Money1 people · 17 points · first shared 2009 · 6 comments on HN
- 8My company is post-revenue.1 people · 5 points · first shared 2009 · 4 comments on HN
- 9She does what she hates1 people · 5 points · first shared 2010 · 1 comments on HN
- 10Permission to Fail1 people · 5 points · first shared 2010 · discussion on HN
- 11Jessica Mah at Stanford ETL with Steve Blank (video)1 people · 4 points · first shared 2012 · discussion on HN
- 12The Problem of Press1 people · 2 points · first shared 2010 · discussion on HN
- 13Jessica Mah (InDinero) gets a condescending email proposal: "Business People"1 people · 2 points · first shared 2010 · discussion on HN
- 14I like to think about our public schools as... a lucrative enterprise?1 people · 2 points · first shared 2008 · 1 comments on HN
- 15Post inDinero Launch Update1 people · 1 points · first shared 2010 · discussion on HN
What HN people wrote when they linked it
DanielRibeiro · 2011-09-23
Agree. Having a seperate department can be helpful for large organizations, so that you can have one team supporting many products. However, if you prefer to hire generalists[1][2], then you can do away with it. Which is also a great away to mitigate Conway's Law[3]
[1] http://jessicamah.com/the-ceos-job-part-2
[2] http://blog.eladgil.com/2010/12/5-myths-to-building-awesome-mobile-tea…
[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway%27s_Law
mwill · 2010-12-12
I wonder if it's just a coincidence that http://jessicamah.com/ is offline at the moment?
socialtistics · 2009-04-28
Try contacting Jessica Mah (http://jessicamah.com). She has a similar story as yours and probably could give you better advice/guidance.
erlanger · 2009-04-09
Fluff.
Can someone explain why we're taking business advice from a college kid who's working on an embryonic startup, and other than that has only worked in internships? The red flag here is that the post does not relate any relevant business experiences and has a linkbait title. Here are some others that exhibit identical traits:
* http://jessicamah.com/blog/?p=641
* http://jessicamah.com/blog/?p=560
* http://jessicamah.com/blog/?p=417
* http://jessicamah.com/blog/?p=406
My personal favorite: http://jessicamah.com/blog/?p=372
Hiring advice from someone who's never hired!
Maybe instead of spending time burning the midnight oil for my small business, I should post linkbait and get the red carpet treatment like this "entrepreneur" has.
Edit: It's also pretty lame to submit your own blog posts.
anuraggoel · 2009-01-21
I just wanted to get my facts and grammar right :-)
Facts: http://jessicamah.com/blog/?page_id=2
Grammar: http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/authoress