How Hacker News motivated me to resign my job and launch my own startup (2011)

Re:How Hacker News motivated me to resign my job and launch ... by acgourley on Friday August 24, 2012 @12:27PM (#4428270)

I also have hacker news to thank for my entrepreneurial career, I think. There isn't a good story there, I've just been reading it for about 6 years, right about when I was graduating college, and the cult of YC indoctrinated me. Edit: For clarification, year 1 and 2 of hacker news were extremely focused on PG, PG's writings, YC, etc. So when I saw I was indoctrinated it's because the site was nothing but that.

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Re:How Hacker News motivated me to resign my job and launch ... by zio99 on Friday August 24, 2012 @01:08PM (#4428463)

Was bitgym funded by YC? Really impressed by your business proposition and your bike hack: http://blog.bitgym.com/2012/03/our-first-lean-hypothesis/ After 23 blog posts in 2 years, I'm sure there's more where that came from. Would you mind sharing your backstory here? Or a 1 minute rundown via email aaron [at] brownieinmotion [dot] ca. I would be honoured to spotlight bitgym in my book: http://sellfy.com/p/9j2z A bit of background: http://startupframework.tumblr.com/post/29634915106/what-i-l... Thanks Alex!

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Re:How Hacker News motivated me to resign my job and launch ... by acgourley on Friday August 24, 2012 @01:47PM (#4428688)

We are not associated with or funded by YC, although Sam did fund us personally. I'll shoot you an email.

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