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The SaaS Startup Founder’s Guide
- rmason 11y agoIf SalesForce is seeking a wide audience for this material then why offer only the choice of the epub format for download? Why not plain text, html or a pdf?
- shaunol 11y agoFollowing on from this, what are the best/recommended epub readers for the desktop? (Windows in particular) I don't have an eBook reader and it's not a format I've dealt with before.
- techmicrobiz 11y agoI usually use Calibre, it's available for a variety of platforms: https://calibre-ebook.com/download https://calibre-ebook.com/download
- cyann 11y agoThis is my current tool: EPUBReader, an add-on for Firefox: https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/epubreader/ https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/epubreader/
- yusucan 11y agoYou can upload to Google Play Books. https://play.google.com/books https://play.google.com/books
- chvid 11y agoIt works fine on my iphone (iBooks - installed by default).
- rubidium 11y agohttp://www.sumatrapdfreader.org/free-pdf-reader.html http://www.sumatrapdfreader.org/free-pdf-reader.html It's my goto PDF and epub reader.
- simonebrunozzi 11y agoYou could have mentioned it is Windows only. Thanks for suggesting it though.
- ausjke 11y agomy calibre says it's DRM and could not open it?
- rubidium 11y agoThis is well written. 100 pages covering the basics for someone with a interest in how to get started. Ch.4 on "nice to have" vs "need your solution" is especially good because it's where many companies fail.
- beeboop 11y agoWay too much fluff, filler, unimportant (at this stage) information, and latent Salesforce sales pitches. A much better resource without all the bullshit (and it's even on sale): http://www.singlefounderhandbook.com/ http://www.singlefounderhandbook.com/
- brianwawok 11y agoSo instead of a free epub, I should spend $199 on this other book. Do you have any financial ties to the link to disclose?
- alex8022 11y agoIf you scroll down, just the book is $39.
- brianwawok 11y agoWow only $39 to learn how to make money on a startup. Is it perhaps a book about selling books on how to make money on a startup for $39?
- beeboop 11y agoThat's not really a fair assessment. He doesn't advertise it as some scammy "Make money on a startup!" like those work from home pyramid schemes. The book is largely designed for people already invested in the idea of starting a startup or possibly already progressing on one, and he advertises it as such. It's a guide of good ideas and bad ideas, not how to make as much money as possible as easily as possible. And no, I've literally never met Mike and have zero connection to him other than I bought his book and sent him an email asking a question about it once.
- simonebrunozzi 11y agoInteresting suggestion. Didn't know the book until now. Did you read it? What's your general impression?
- nonuby 11y agoYikes, hopefully it doesn't contain a chapter on building a training course, with something as sad as #trailhead where contestants, sorry certified solution experts, dress up in Halloween outfits and post selfies to twitter for extra badges...
- noahmbarr 11y agoThe joke of this piece of content marketing is SalesForce, as a CRM, specifically does NOT gracefully handle reoccurring revenue in its product. So, if you want to run a SaaS business w/ SFDC, be prepared to jump through constant hoops for auto-renewing / re-occur "closed won" opportunities.
- pbnjay 11y agoHaven't actually read the book yet, but I'm pleasantly surprised I didn't have to provide an email address! The number of drip campaigns people run nowadays can get pretty annoying pretty quickly.
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