I kind of see the original point as it relates to coding, but anecdotally StartupsOpenSourced.com has made $10k+ in revenue in the past week (not all of it is o

I kind of see the original point as it relates to coding, but anecdotally StartupsOpenSourced.com has made $10k+ in revenue in the past week (not all of it is owned by me, but that's what people have paid so far) I think it fits into more motivational type of book than anything else. At the end of the day, it's like Starcraft casters: there are guys like HD, Husky, and Day9 but I don't think they ever see themselves as competitive (while the users seem to think the exact opposite) because users will always want to watch more of them. just like I would never see something like Mixergy as competitive because the two things are so complimentary, plus it seems like there isn't really a lot of reading material for early stage founders anyway. Mixergy, StartupFoundry, and Founders at Work might be the three things I'd go to, thinking off the top of my head. I want to believe that if what you write has some value to it, people are willing to pay. I didn't pay for Photoshop licenses until I was about 18, when I could actually afford it, so I pirated it until I could. There was enough value that it allowed me to pay for it over time.