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Nabeel Hyatt
nabeelhyatt.com · Personal blog · on HN since 2009
Nabeel Hyatt is a venture investor at Spark Capital who writes on startups, games, and venture capital.
What HN saysHN commenters link his posts, including a reply on making exceptions for exceptional people and others about games and startup advice.
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Most-shared posts
- 1Are you building for Google or Facebook?2 people · 24 points · first shared 2010 · 6 comments on HN
- 2Why do games as an entertainment medium elicit this kind of cultural shame?2 people · 6 points · first shared 2009 · 12 comments on HN
- 3Watching your competitors release "your" features2 people · 3 points · first shared 2013 · discussion on HN
- 4Making exceptions for exceptional people2 people · 3 points · first shared 2013 · 1 comments on HN
- 5Spark Capital will now pay their own legal bills1 people · 306 points · first shared 2013 · 107 comments on HN
- 6The quickest path to $50m in revenue? Build fun.1 people · 27 points · first shared 2009 · 13 comments on HN
- 7Where "Moneyball VC" won't work1 people · 6 points · first shared 2013 · discussion on HN
- 8Navigating your startup in dark places1 people · 4 points · first shared 2009 · 1 comments on HN
- 9Building platform companies1 people · 3 points · first shared 2009 · discussion on HN
- 10Call it evidence-based1 people · 2 points · first shared 2012 · discussion on HN
- 11What you get back when you build culture1 people · 2 points · first shared 2012 · discussion on HN
- 12Investing in Games1 people · 2 points · first shared 2013 · discussion on HN
- 13Nabeel hyatt – Building a three-sided marketplace1 people · 1 points · first shared 2015 · discussion on HN
- 14In defense of hype1 people · 1 points · first shared 2012 · discussion on HN
- 15The unique lessons of Oculus1 people · 1 points · first shared 2014 · discussion on HN
What HN people wrote when they linked it
nabeelo · 2013-07-10
Hey Ivan... Started writing a response but it got a little long for HN, so it turned into a post: http://nabeelhyatt.com/post/55107292357/making-exceptions-for-exceptio…
wmf · 2009-12-04
That's not the correct solution; the blog itself has perfectly good permalinks: http://nabeelhyatt.com/post/269124967/hi-my-name-is-mike-and-i-was-a-f…
nabeel · 2009-09-23
37signals seems to like this topic.. The last time they sounded off on why half-assing it is a good idea, I reacted just as viscerally as this post. Since they did a redux, I will too:
http://nabeelhyatt.com/post/130164127/instead-of-watching-tv-or-playin…