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Nick O'Neill
nickoneill.com · Personal blog · on HN since 2011
Nick O'Neill writes about startups, media, and social platforms, including Facebook apps, Y Combinator, and why entrepreneurs fail.
What HN saysCommenters link his posts on Forbes copying a New York Times article, Yahoo Pipes' influence, and running multiple startups at once.
18HN people shared it
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Most-shared posts
- 1How Forbes Stole a New York Times Article and Got All The Traffic3 people · 247 points · first shared 2012 · 60 comments on HN
- 2The Forgotten Yahoo Project That Inspired Two Recently Funded Startups2 people · 159 points · first shared 2012 · 47 comments on HN
- 3Silicon Valley Is Filled With Liars2 people · 148 points · first shared 2012 · 85 comments on HN
- 4The Most Common Way Entrepreneurs Kill Their Business2 people · 71 points · first shared 2012 · 12 comments on HN
- 5Why The 99% Should Protest Against Y Combinator1 people · 191 points · first shared 2011 · 107 comments on HN
- 6The Increasingly Prevalent Auto-Follow Trick1 people · 71 points · first shared 2011 · 29 comments on HN
- 7Believing Your Own Bullshit1 people · 29 points · first shared 2011 · 5 comments on HN
- 8Facebook Just Obscured App Reporting1 people · 27 points · first shared 2013 · 8 comments on HN
- 9Why Is Startup Culture So Unhealthy?1 people · 16 points · first shared 2012 · 21 comments on HN
- 10How To Stop Your Product Launch From Failing Miserably1 people · 13 points · first shared 2011 · 2 comments on HN
- 11The Evolution of App Store Screenshots1 people · 7 points · first shared 2013 · discussion on HN
- 12Why Your Startup Shouldn’t Build A Mobile App Yet1 people · 6 points · first shared 2012 · 2 comments on HN
- 13How About Elon Musk For President?1 people · 4 points · first shared 2011 · discussion on HN
- 14The 4-Hour Startup Is Bullshit1 people · 4 points · first shared 2011 · discussion on HN
- 15Find the Pain: The Motto of Successful Entrepreneurs1 people · 3 points · first shared 2012 · 1 comments on HN
What HN people wrote when they linked it
biznickman · 2012-01-07
I wrote a post on this last night (published this morning) http://nickoneill.com/the-most-common-way-entrepreneurs-kill-their-bus… ... my main conclusion is that running multiple startups at the same time is a great way to kill your startups. Yes, there are always exceptions to the rule (e.g. Jack Dorsey) but until you have a company that has a massive team that can support your business on an ongoing basis, it's not likely to work.
valgaze · 2013-08-01
Sounds an awful lot like: http://nickoneill.com/how-fortune-stole-a-new-york-times-article-and-g…
sathish316 · 2012-09-22
Are you referring to Unix Pipe, which inspired Yahoo Pipes, which inspired ifttt and Zapire? (http://nickoneill.com/the-forgotten-yahoo-project-that-inspired-two-re…
NonEUCitizen · 2012-09-07
From their web page, they only make money if there is a hire:
http://developerauction.com/for_employers
"If you end up hiring a candidate within 6 months of viewing their profile, we will invoice you..."
Note the phrasing "142 startups... submitted over $30m in job offers." Sounds like if company A bids $200K for SuperNerd, and company B bids $250K for SuperNerd, they'd count that as $450K of submitted bids. SuperNerd may have declined both offers, so income might be zero. See the "Vanity Metrics" section of this article (but ignore its title):
http://nickoneill.com/silicon-valley-is-filled-with-liars/
hansef · 2012-08-28
Saw this post this evening: http://nickoneill.com/building-a-plane-on-the-runway/ - "pivoting" is a meaningful startup pattern when it means "variations on a theme", informed by data and quantitative customer discovery, rather than the the "am I building an iOS app to manage your pet rock collection, or Airbnb for dogs?" flailing which too often hides behind the label.
someperson · 2012-06-10
Here's one (but by no means the only) example: http://nickoneill.com/how-fortune-stole-a-new-york-times-article-and-g…
From what I've seen, articles on forbes.com are mostly low-quality - often blogspam or tabloid-style journalism. They seem to have a good reputation in society which isn't represented by their articles.
I would be a happier living in a filter bubble with "forbes.com" removed from my life.
pitdesi · 2012-04-28
In a world of short attention spans, I don't want to listen to a podcast, and I doubt the podcast would have skyrocketed up the HN page.
Increasingly, smaller articles about other articles get much more traffic than the original source. One such example is the well-researched NYT article about how companies learn your secrets, and then the Forbes article that cut the crap and got to the real shocker of the story and got more pageviews (possibly $$$) http://nickoneill.com/how-fortune-stole-a-new-york-times-article-and-g…