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Danielle Morrill
Personal blog · daniellemorrill.com · on HN as dmorstartupsbusinesswriting
Danielle Morrill's personal blog at daniellemorrill.com covers startups, business and writing. Since 2009, 47 different Hacker News readers have linked it 147 times, most often “Post-Startup Life: Reflecting on My First 18 Months Living in Denver”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (16) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Danielle Morrill's startup writing, such as the 'zombie startups' post, her numbers-based posts on the YC startup index, and her account of a dispute with BetaPunch. Comments mostly cite these as sources.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 16 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Writing about startups, investing, tech, cooking, and travel.
Most-linked posts?
- Post-Startup Life: Reflecting on My First 18 Months Living in Denver6 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2019-08-03
- Results of Sam Altman’s 2015 “Bubble Talk” Bet6 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2020-01-02
- Zombie Startups3 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2013-03-10
- How I Built an Apartment Buzzer for Multiple Roommates3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2010-06-07
- Why I Won’t Be Using BetaPunch for User Testing3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2013-01-10
- Startup Marketing: 2nd Class Citizen, 2nd Rate Results2 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2010-09-05
- The Y Combinator Startup Index2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2013-03-21
- Indexing the Andreessen Horowitz Portfolio Companies2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2013-04-03
- In race to be first-on-tumblr-acquisition,WSJ publishes questionable headline2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2013-05-19
- “This Storm Is You” and Other Thoughts After a Year in M&A Limbo2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2018-02-25
What Hacker News says?
this thought popped into mind - don't be a zombie startup http://www.daniellemorrill.com/2013/03/zombie-startups/
Comment linking /2013/03/zombie-startups/
on “My Startup has 30 Days to Live”Submitted Why I Won’t Be Using BetaPunch for User Testing as a story · 359 points
HN discussionExactly. That's an application of the Pareto Principle where 80%+ of the returns are realized by 20% or fewer of the participants. Without those high-performance outliers, this whole category of investment asset class would simply no longer exist. Once those high-performance outliers regress to the mean (if they do end up doing so), the VC asset class is sunk. If the outliers remain as outliers, then either the asse…
Comment linking /2013/04/zombie-vc-shakeout-continues/
on “Failed Startup's Final Income Statements Reveal Grave Error”Submitted Zombie Startups as a story · 297 points
HN discussionThe original headline from WSJ was “Yahoo to Buy Tumblr for $1.1 Billion” which is obviously questionable since they state in the same article that Tumblr has not actually confirmed the deal. Now other outlets are reporting it as a done deal when it isn't. http://www.daniellemorrill.com/2013/05/in-race-to-be-first-o...
Comment linking /2013/05/in-race-to-be-first-on-tumblr-acquisition-by-yahoo-wall-street-journal-publishes-questionable-headline/
on “The Yahoo board has approved a deal to pay $1.1 billion in cash for Tumblr”Submitted Solve the Problems Your Parents Have as a story · 220 points
HN discussionYep, the emphasis is on "may". Of note that Marko is very technical himself. After almost 10 years in tech marketing, here is what I see, especially on the early side of things: 1. A lot of marketers are afraid of tech (yes, even if they've worked in tech for years). Or, they won't take the time to learn it, even at the most fundamental level. It doesn't help that in their always stressful first months there is zero…
Comment linking /2010/09/startup-marketing-2nd-class-citizen-2nd-rate-results/
on “Developer, you may need a co-founder in marketing”Submitted How to Hustle SXSW for Fun & Profit as a story · 136 points
HN discussionThanks, I'd love to! :D Is the refer.ly address still best? http://www.daniellemorrill.com/about-me/contact-me/
Comment linking /about-me/contact-me/
on “Turning Down TechCrunch”Submitted The Y Combinator Startup Index as a story · 135 points
HN discussionI wonder if HN user thinkcomp had anything to do with this. It says that it was done based on information from an informant, and he's been harassing everyone touching money without a license. This has to be the first thread about money transmission that he hasn't posted in. https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=thinkcomp https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5398074 Edit: He also just filed his lawsuit against virt…
Comment linking /2013/05/lawsuit-names-slew-of-venture-capitalists-payments-startups/
on “Feds reveal the search warrant used to seize Mt. Gox account”Submitted Zombie VCs as a story · 134 points
HN discussionSlightly confused. Here: http://www.daniellemorrill.com/2013/03/zombie-startups/ they had ~130k "active monthly users" yet in that post they say they had ~15k? Not trying to be snarky, just curious what they are using to define the two groups.
Comment linking /2013/03/zombie-startups/
on “Closure”Submitted How I Built an Apartment Buzzer for Multiple Roommates as a story · 132 points
HN discussionI have been keeping an index of companies from the current batch as they launch, with short descriptions and web traffic stats. Right now 27 of the 47 companies have already publicly launched (mostly on TechCrunch). I will update this throughout the day: http://www.daniellemorrill.com/2013/03/preliminary-yc-index-...
Comment linking /2013/03/preliminary-yc-index-winter-2013-batch-companies/
on “Today Is Y Combinator W13 Demo Day”Submitted Don't Waste a Single Moment as a story · 115 points
HN discussionDanielle Morrill of Twilio shared something very similar to this on her blog back in June of 2010. One difference in her post is the fact that she set up different secret codes for various roommates. Link: http://www.daniellemorrill.com/2010/06/how-i-built-a-multi-u...
Comment linking /2010/06/how-i-built-a-multi-user-door-buzzer-for-our-apartment/
on “Hacking your apartment's electronic entry system”Submitted I Don't Do That Job Anymore as a story · 112 points
HN discussionI generally don't include companies that have exited. You can view the YC index here and download the data. The April version will be out soon. http://www.daniellemorrill.com/2013/03/the-y-combinator-inde...
Comment linking /2013/03/the-y-combinator-index/
on “Traction Tracker: Y Combinator Companies With Significant Traffic Growth”Submitted The $3B+ Exit Tumblr Could Have Had as a story · 97 points
HN discussionActually one more as well: http://www.daniellemorrill.com/2013/03/numbers-in-action/
Comment linking /2013/03/numbers-in-action/
on “Mattermark (Formerly Referly) Wants To Be The Data Signaling Platform For VCs”Submitted Double Tap as a story · 86 points
HN discussionThere are two actually: http://www.daniellemorrill.com/2013/03/zombie-startups/ and http://www.daniellemorrill.com/2013/04/double-tap/
Comment linking /2013/04/double-tap/
on “Mattermark (Formerly Referly) Wants To Be The Data Signaling Platform For VCs”Submitted 119 Investors Actively Doing Series A Deals Since March 1st as a story · 84 points
HN discussionYou're right, and by that point they don't need a technical cofounder, they just hire an engineer as an employee. Getting work with people who can actually reliably acquire customers is as valuable as getting to work with someone who can reliably write code. http://www.daniellemorrill.com/2010/09/startup-marketing-2nd...
Comment linking /2010/09/startup-marketing-2nd-class-citizen-2nd-rate-results/
on “Female Founders of Y Combinator’s Winter 2013 Class”Submitted Starting Referly (YC S12) Took Me Three Years as a story · 73 points
HN discussionThat's clearly not Danielle's intention[1]. Be careful to not accuse someone on mere speculation. [1] http://www.daniellemorrill.com/2013/01/why-i-wont-be-using-b...
Comment linking /2013/01/why-i-wont-be-using-betapunch-for-user-testing/
on “Why I won’t be closing down BetaPunch: A formal apology”Submitted AngelList Receives SEC No-Action Letter Two Days After FundersClub as a story · 72 points
HN discussionDanielle Morille had a troubling encounter with them, as documented here: http://www.daniellemorrill.com/2013/01/why-i-wont-be-using-b... As of 25 minutes ago, they were still publicly trashing her in Twitter.
Comment linking /2013/01/why-i-wont-be-using-betapunch-for-user-testing/
on “BetaPunch - User Testing For Startups”Submitted Embracing the Incrementality Mentality as a story · 60 points
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