https://chapin.blog Writing, talks, and media on startup culture, founder psychology, and the patterns of startup failure. en-us Mon, 15 Jun 2026 02:22:30 GMT chapin.blog / Astro https://hackernoon.com/research-programmatic-and-news-aggregators-are-cooked-social-is-a-discoverability-terror https://hackernoon.com/research-programmatic-and-news-aggregators-are-cooked-social-is-a-discoverability-terror Fri, 15 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT Writing Published on HackerNoon. https://hackernoon.com/crowdfunding-your-startup-is-making-a-big-comeback https://hackernoon.com/crowdfunding-your-startup-is-making-a-big-comeback Sun, 09 Nov 2025 00:00:00 GMT Writing Published on HackerNoon. https://chapin.blog/patterns-of-startup-failure https://chapin.blog/patterns-of-startup-failure Wed, 15 Oct 2025 00:00:00 GMT Writing Published on chapin.blog. https://chapin.blog/talk-dangers-of-hubris-over-confidence-at-berkeley-haas-don-a-moore https://chapin.blog/talk-dangers-of-hubris-over-confidence-at-berkeley-haas-don-a-moore Thu, 02 Oct 2025 20:24:00 GMT Talk My biggest mistake wasn’t failing. 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