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It is possibly one of the most diversified tech communities on the planet. As such it attracts talent. At the end, talent is your most valuable raw material as
by wuschel 11y ago
It is possibly one of the most diversified tech communities on the planet. As such it attracts talent. At the end, talent is your most valuable raw material as an accelerator/startup.
HN pulls techies/hackers like a magnet. In a way, it was the internet exposure to YC/HN/pg's essays that brought me into the startup world. And in a way, it was always my aspiration to go to Mountain View and talk to those people that gave me that exposure.
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- Frondo 11y agoNot snark, not sarcasm, not nitpicking, actual genuine curiosity (because that'd be really encouraging if it were true!).....How do you know how diverse this community is?
- smt88 11y agoIt may not be demographically diverse, but it definitely is intellectually diverse. I've seen threads where people hard-core nerded out to the following topics: - any/all programming languages - processors (anything on silicon, really) - tractors - genetics - Chinese law - meteorology - geology The list goes on...
- wuschel 11y agoThis. Of course I would love to see HN data, but I believe that there is a fair amount of users that are not located anywhere near Silicon Valley. An indicator of this would be the fact that many people I know from the EU startup scene have an HN account. Different age group, background, and profession. Of course, the sample size is not that large here.
- spdionis 11y agoAnd don't forget hard boiled eggs!! I was amazed at the popularity of that one...