Submission timeline
2007–2026One slot for every year since HN launched. Height is that year's peak points; orange marks a 100+ point or 50+ comment breakout. Select a bar to open its strongest thread.
First comments on top threads
HN comment orderOne of these companies has developed something new, interesting, and economically useful. The other company has great marketing. One of them is playing a positive-sum game. The other is playing a zero-sum game: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero-sum_game I don't know that one of these really represents MIT and the other really represents Stanford, but I can tell you that the technology company is adding value to the world in a way that the marketing company is not.
The article strikes me as somewhat OK but overly critical of the MIT startup and overly forgiving of the Stanford startup. Also prior to the mid 1990s it seems like the Stanford startup thing really hadn't begun yet. You look at the old guard of SV companies and they operated much more like east coast culture. To me it seems like the modern "Stanford startup" culture arose from VC money from the investors who made tons of money in the…
The first top-level comment from each of the four biggest threads, in HN’s own order. Excerpts are shortened; open a comment for full context.
- Breakout years
- 2
- Total points
- 387
- Total comments
- 160
100+ points or 50+ comments
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reference only — not used in Hall rules or ranking
Every submission
| Date | Title as submitted | By | Points | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013-11-05 | The Stanford Startup and the MIT Startup | amirhirsch | 2 | 0 |
| 2013-11-12 | The Stanford Startup and the MIT StartupFirst breakout · Best thread | grinich | 193 | 85 |
| 2024-05-21 | The Stanford Startup and the MIT Startup (2013)Latest 20+ point return | momofuku | 192 | 75 |