Business & Strategy blogs

Paul Graham, co-founder of Y Combinator, writes essays on startups, programming, wealth, and independent thinking.

Top post: The Submarine (2005)

Joel Spolsky writes about software development, management, and running a software company, with many essays from the early 2000s.

Top post: Things You Should Never Do, Part I (2000)

Google's official corporate blog, carrying product announcements, AI news, and policy statements from the company.

Top post: Google: G Suite and Gmail to more closely align

Patrick McKenzie (patio11) writes about software businesses, salary negotiation, Japan, and finance.

Top post: Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Names

The company blog of 37signals, makers of Basecamp, on bootstrapped business, product design, and their books.

Top post: Remote: the new book by 37signals, coming fall 2013

The blog of Basecamp (formerly 37signals), where founders write about running a profitable software company and startup culture.

Top post: When I think of Snapchat's new potential $10B valuation, I am reminded of this

Ben Thompson analyzes technology business strategy, platforms, and media, with a paid subscription for much of it.

Top post: Aggregation Theory (2015)

Venkatesh Rao writes long essays on organizations, culture, technology, and how people make sense of modern life.

Top post: The Gervais Principle, or The Office According to "The Office"

David Heinemeier Hansson, creator of Ruby on Rails and co-owner of 37signals, writes about software, leaving the cloud, and politics.

Top post: DHH – As I Remember London

The blog of a data-driven content company, publishing stories on economics, pricing, and business history, such as the diamond industry.

Top post: Joe Bankman: Tax Hero

Steve Blank, a Silicon Valley entrepreneur and educator, writes about startups, customer development, and the history of Silicon Valley.

Top post: "Secret" History of Silicon Valley (2008)

Y Combinator's blog, with startup advice, funding terms, and announcements about Hacker News and the accelerator.

Top post: How to Choose Domain Extensions for an International Audience

O'Reilly Media's technology blog, covering web performance, software practice, data, and industry trends, with posts by Tim O'Reilly and others.

Top post: Work on Stuff that Matters: First Principles

Derek Sivers, founder of CD Baby, writes short essays on business, creativity, and life, and keeps notes on books he has read.

Top post: Ideas are just a multiplier of execution

Mark Suster, a venture capitalist, writes about startups, fundraising, valuations, sales, and founder decisions.

Top post: Is it Time for You to Earn or to Learn?

Seth Godin writes short daily posts on marketing, ideas, work, and how people make choices.

Top post: Don't Shave That Yak

First Round Review is the content arm of venture firm First Round Capital, with startup advice on product, hiring, and management.

Top post: How To Find Product/Market Fit — A Step By Step Guide

Kevin Kelly, a Wired co-founder, writes about technology, culture, and the future, including the 1,000 true fans idea.

Top post: 1,000 True Fans (2008)

Jason Cohen writes about startups, bootstrapping and business strategy, and founded WP Engine; the blog also explains color vision.

Top post: Rich vs. King in the Real World: Why I sold my company

Jacques Mattheij, a Dutch software entrepreneur and HN regular, writes about projects, consulting, privacy, and his early web video company.

Top post: The Unofficial HN FAQ

Benedict Evans, an independent tech analyst and former a16z partner, writes essays and a newsletter on tech industry trends.

Top post: The Great Unbundling

The corporate blog of Coinbase, the cryptocurrency exchange, covering company policy, security responses, and cryptocurrency network incidents.

Top post: Coinbase is a mission focused company

Horace Dediu analyzes technology markets, Apple, mobile, and disruption theory, using data on company performance and industry shifts.

Top post: Apple now strives to design and build products that last as long as possible

Brad Feld, a venture capitalist and Techstars co-founder, writes about startups, SaaS metrics, term sheets, and venture funds.

Top post: The Rule of 40% for a Healthy SaaS Company (2015)

Ed Zitron writes critical analysis of the AI industry's finances, focusing on OpenAI, Anthropic, and Big Tech spending and revenue.

Top post: The man who killed Google Search?

Tom Tunguz is a venture capitalist who writes about startup metrics, SaaS economics, and data, often backed by his own analysis.

Top post: Ratio Of Engineers To Sales People In Billion Dollar SaaS Startups

Monday Note is Jean-Louis Gassée's weekly commentary on technology and business, especially Apple, with experience from Apple and BeOS.

Top post: The ARPUs of the Big Four Dwarf Everybody Else

OnStartups is Dharmesh Shah's blog on startup advice, covering pricing, press coverage, sales and product decisions.

Top post: Secrets Of Freemium Pricing: Make The Cheapskates Pay

Robert X. Cringely, a longtime tech journalist, comments on the IT industry, big companies, H-1B visas and Silicon Valley history.

Top post: What Americans don’t know about H-1B visas could hurt us all

Moz (formerly SEOmoz) publishes guides, research and tools on search engine optimization and online marketing.

Top post: The consensus of 37 experts in SEO

Derek Sivers, founder of CD Baby, writes short essays on business, programming, simplicity and personal philosophy.

Top post: There’s no speed limit (2009)

The Mission is a Medium publication with essays on startups, sales, personal growth, and technology, by various contributors.

Top post: The greatest sales deck I've ever seen (2016)

Gabriel Weinberg, founder of DuckDuckGo, writes about startups, traction, search engine architecture, privacy, and open source funding.

Top post: Ask YC/HN Archive

Kissmetrics, an analytics company, publishes marketing and conversion-optimization articles on landing pages, page speed, customer lifetime value, and growth case studies.

Top post: Anatomy of a Perfect Landing Page

Every is a publication and newsletter network covering AI, business, productivity, and tech, with writers like Dan Shipper and Gareth Edwards.

Top post: Top AI Models Compete in a Game of Diplomacy

Mark Cuban, entrepreneur and investor, writes on business, careers, startups, and the stock market.

Top post: Dont Follow Your Passion, Follow Your Effort

Personal site of Matt Mullenweg, WordPress co-founder and Automattic CEO, covering WordPress, open source, and his companies.

Top post: 1.0 Is The Loneliest Number

Florian Mueller covers patent litigation in tech, especially Apple, Samsung, Google, Oracle and Nokia disputes, and software patent law.

Top post: These tables show HOW Android infringes Apple's two HTC-beater patents

Matt Stoller writes a newsletter on antitrust, monopoly power, and corporate consolidation in the US economy.

Top post: Why Wall Street Gets a Bailout and You Don't

Uber's company blog with product announcements, insurance and safety explanations, funding news, and data posts.

Top post: UberXridesharinginsurance

Patrick McKenzie writes about payments, banking, fraud, compliance, and how financial infrastructure works.

Top post: The optimal amount of fraud is non-zero (2022)

On Startups is a Medium publication of essays by founders and marketers on building companies, product launches, and startup failure.

Top post: Formula for Entrepreneurial Success

Palladium is a magazine of essays on governance, institutions, technology, and society, with a techno-libertarian slant.

Top post: Complex Systems Won't Survive the Competence Crisis

Andrew Chen, a startup investor and former Uber executive, writes on growth, user engagement, product metrics, and startup funding.

Top post: Why investors don’t fund dating

The 8th Light blog is by a software consultancy and covers clean architecture, agile practice, rewrites, and extreme programming.

Top post: Uncle Bob's Clean Architecture

Ben Horowitz, venture capitalist and co-founder of Andreessen Horowitz, writes about running startups, CEOs, and management.

Top post: How to Minimize Politics in Your Company (2010)

A Medium publication where startup founders and engineers share lessons from building products, including Evan Williams and Bonobos' Andy Dunn.

Top post: The McDonald's Theory of Bad Ideas

Jason Snell and Dan Moren's site covering Apple, with tips, analysis, and charts of Apple's financial results.

Top post: Quick Tip: Enable Touch ID for Sudo (2020)

Fog Creek Software's company blog, covering FogBugz, Kiln, Trello, sales, and running a software company.

Top post: The Trello Tech Stack

Eric Ries writes on startup methodology, including minimum viable products, customer development, pivots and root cause analysis.

Top post: Building a minimum viable product

Adafruit, an open-source hardware company, posts product news, maker projects and commentary on tariffs, legal disputes and industry issues.

Top post: When Open Becomes Opaque: The Changing Face of Open-Source Hardware Companies

Matt Cutts, former head of Google's web spam team, writes about SEO, search, Google policy, and personal tech tips.

Top post: Subdomains and subdirectories

HubSpot's company blog, covering marketing, sales, landing pages, A/B testing, and business writing.

Top post: 8 Brilliant Landing Page Examples You Need to See

Maciej Ceglowski writes about running Pinboard, a bookmarking service, along with hosting, social web, and startup lessons.

Top post: Don't Be A Free User

Om Malik, a veteran tech journalist and photographer, writes essays on technology, AI, business, and cameras.

Top post: Om interviews Brunello Cucinelli (2015)

Corey Quinn writes a newsletter and blog on AWS and cloud costs, mixing sarcasm with practical analysis of cloud services.

Top post: Azure’s Security Vulnerabilities Are Out of Control

Dropbox's official company blog announces product releases, security incidents, policy changes, and company news.

Top post: Thank You, Guido

Startup Grind is a Medium publication with articles on startups, software engineering, SEO, press, and entrepreneurship.

Top post: I Got Scammed by a Silicon Valley Startup

Cedric Chin writes Commoncog on business operations, tacit knowledge, learning, data-driven management, and how companies build advantage.

Top post: Goodhart’s law isn’t as useful as you might think (2023)

Guy Kawasaki, a venture capitalist and former Apple evangelist, offers startup advice on pitches, fundraising, and business plans.

Top post: The 10/20/30 Rule of PowerPoint