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This isn't a forum for entrepreneurs: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2403868 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2403868

by icey 16y ago

swombat 16y ago
Sad. I've told numerous people that this was the best online community of entrepreneurs bar none. I guess we need a new one.
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- vyrotek 16y ago
  Whoa, same here. I guess I will direct my referrals elsewhere from now on. On that note. Where is the best online community for entrepreneurs then?
  - bvi 16y ago
    > On that note. Where is the best online community for entrepreneurs then? That's easy. Check out Hacker News. Oh wait...
- mikerhoads 16y ago
  Its a great forum for entrepreneurs to learn. For entrepreneurs to promote things on is a different story.
- bradleyjoyce 16y ago
  I own the domain startup.io which I originally thought I would use for a Startup Q&A site. A news submission site is appropriate as well.. anyone want to help?
- pg 16y ago
  As far as I know it is. As a forum for hackers, it's a forum for a superset of the subset of entrepreneurs YC cares about. There are several reasons it's better to aim for the superset. One is that this type of founder is more omnivorous by nature, and even when in the throes of starting a startup, gets bored reading about nothing but startups. The other is that hackers are more likely to become founders unintentionally. Many don't realize till only a few months beforehand that they are about to start companies. So if you look at the set of people who will eventually start startups, what they're interested in reading about now is not "entrepreneurship" but e.g. programming languages.
jrsmith1279 16y ago
From the YC application page: "We're more likely to fund people we know are smart from their submissions and comments on Hacker News." With all due respect to PG, this sounds like an invitation for entrepreneurs to use HN, since one would think that YC is looking for entrepreneurs.
- samstokes 16y ago
  HN not being for (i.e. targeted at) entrepreneurs doesn't mean that there wouldn't be a high concentration of entrepreneurs on HN (especially if you hypothesise a correlation between being a hacker and being an entrepreneur).
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This isn't a forum for entrepreneurs: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2403868 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2403868

by icey 16y ago

This isn't a forum for entrepreneurs: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2403868 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2403868

swombat 16y ago

Sad. I've told numerous people that this was the best online community of entrepreneurs bar none. I guess we need a new one.

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vyrotek 16y ago
Whoa, same here. I guess I will direct my referrals elsewhere from now on. On that note. Where is the best online community for entrepreneurs then?
- bvi 16y ago
  > On that note. Where is the best online community for entrepreneurs then? That's easy. Check out Hacker News. Oh wait...
mikerhoads 16y ago
Its a great forum for entrepreneurs to learn. For entrepreneurs to promote things on is a different story.
bradleyjoyce 16y ago
I own the domain startup.io which I originally thought I would use for a Startup Q&A site. A news submission site is appropriate as well.. anyone want to help?
pg 16y ago
As far as I know it is. As a forum for hackers, it's a forum for a superset of the subset of entrepreneurs YC cares about. There are several reasons it's better to aim for the superset. One is that this type of founder is more omnivorous by nature, and even when in the throes of starting a startup, gets bored reading about nothing but startups. The other is that hackers are more likely to become founders unintentionally. Many don't realize till only a few months beforehand that they are about to start companies. So if you look at the set of people who will eventually start startups, what they're interested in reading about now is not "entrepreneurship" but e.g. programming languages.

jrsmith1279 16y ago

From the YC application page: "We're more likely to fund people we know are smart from their submissions and comments on Hacker News." With all due respect to PG, this sounds like an invitation for entrepreneurs to use HN, since one would think that YC is looking for entrepreneurs.

samstokes 16y ago
HN not being for (i.e. targeted at) entrepreneurs doesn't mean that there wouldn't be a high concentration of entrepreneurs on HN (especially if you hypothesise a correlation between being a hacker and being an entrepreneur).
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