[jitl]

I'm always amused when I see an article like this at the top of Hacker News. I come here for interesting technical articles and discussion on computer science topics, not this sort-of marketing noise^H^H^H^H^H advice targeted at "entrepreneurs".

I wonder how much overlap there is between upvoters of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12539522 (L4 microkernels...) and this article (Five Types of Virality). It would be very interesting if Hacker News could release some anonymized voting information so we could visualize our community's various clusters.

[bitshiffed]

I followed the link, having misread it as "File Types of Virality" and thinking it was something about file formats, relating to hosting viruses.

[j03m1]

When I see posts like this I just assume everyone at [ insert company y ] up voted.

[ismdubey]

actually, I submitted this post and have nothing to do with Greylock. I am an entrepreneur myself trying to grow my product. Hence, I think about virality all the time. The audience here is also interested in growth as is clear by the upvotes.

[daveguy]

Just because you submitted it doesn't mean everyone at company y isn't alerting on posts about their company and voting them up.

But I do agree this is an entrepreneurial topic of general interest.

[ismdubey]

Theoretically, you might be right. But, I seriously doubt someone at GreyLock would have noticed until it was upvoted enough no of times to be on top.