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The Launch Pad: Inside Y Combinator
- djt 14y agoPG, what do you think of the book?
- pg 14y agoIt's remarkably accurate. There's stuff in it that makes me wince, but I suppose that's a feature of any accurate portrait. Randy got to see everything, even interviews, and he's a very observant guy.
- zio99 14y agoPG, do you think you could skim through a short excerpt from my book as well? I wrote it after applying to the class of S12 and wanted to share what I learnt: http://bit.ly/icecreamstart http://bit.ly/icecreamstart Ice Cream Startups: Pick your best idea & run with it
- kmax12 14y agois that a referly (S12) affiliate link in the post?
- DigitalSea 14y agoYep, how classy of DanielRibeiro to do so (that is if it was intentional or not), but I don't see how it wasn't intentional unless Amazon have started adding them to the end of their URL's, haha.
- DanielRibeiro 14y agoSorry about that. My mistake. On the other hand the link is actually from Danielle Morrill[1], who is the founder of Refer.ly Would change it if I could, but now only HN mods can do it... [1] https://twitter.com/DanielleMorrill/status/233358241831194624 https://twitter.com/DanielleMorrill/status/23335824183119462...
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- dmor 14y agoHey guys Danielle here. Here's what I think we should do: if it makes commissions we can donate them to Room to Read through our charity program, and I will share all the stats in a blog post. Cool?
- someperson 14y agoI think you should email PG to ask him to remove the referral link
- endlessvoid94 14y agowhy?
- someperson 14y agoIt incentives spam. I have less of a problem with comments containing referral links since that's clearly the author's opinions, but I see submissions should have less blatant commercial interest. HN already frowns upon self-submission of personal blog posts (if it's interesting enough for HN the argument goes, it would be submitted by a 3rd party). How can I trust a website recommendations from a website like Coding Horror when every Amazon link generates a commission. It's encouragement to sell expensive products rather than more suitable ones. I generally remove the referral query from URLs when I click through.
- someperson 14y agoIt incentives spam. I have less of a problem with comments containing referral links since that's clearly the author's opinions, but I see submissions should have less blatant commercial interest. HN already frowns upon self-submission of personal blog posts (if it's interesting enough for HN the argument goes, it would be submitted by a 3rd party). How can I trust a website recommendations from a website like Coding Horror when every Amazon link generates a commission. It's encouragement to sell expensive products rather than more suitable ones. I generally remove the referral query from URLs when I click through.
- melvinmt 14y agoUhm, who cares? Whatever the link is, you will have to pay the same price anyway and the commission would end up in Amazon's pockets. Luckily, Danielle is nice enough to donate all the proceeds to charity. I just pre-ordered mine through this link, you're welcome.
- mindcrime 14y agoUhm, who cares? Whatever the link is, you will have to pay the same price anyway and the commission would end up in Amazon's pockets. Exactamundo. A link on HN is either valuable content or it isn't... whether or not the submitter is profiting from it via a referral code is pretty much orthogonal to that, and is pretty much irrelevant. It's a silly thing to bitch about.
- dbecker 14y agoI think it's awesome that she is donating the commission to charity... but it's worth noting that Amazon prohibits telling others that you are doing this. https://affiliate-program.amazon.com/gp/associates/help/t15/a8?ie=UTF8&pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER https://affiliate-program.amazon.com/gp/associates/help/t15/...
- mikeknoop 14y agoThe referral link itself is from Danielle (co-founder, not the Daniel who submitted the story): refer.ly/r/aY0H/show My guess is OP saw it via refer.ly and submitted it straight without stripping the identifier. New bootstrapping strategy, anyone?
- ralph 14y agoGiven the http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1591845297/?tag=referly-20 http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1591845297/?tag=referly-20 URL how does referly know which of its users to pass Amazon's commission onto? Several could turn up to refer on the same product.
- jamiequint 14y agoProbably via the "-20"
- austenallred 14y agoI get a little frustrated when books centered on tech startups don't come in electronic formats. Pretty please, publisher, can we get a Kindle version?
- _gbc 14y agoSeconded on the Kindle version (preferably one which is formated correctly for a change). I suspect we aren't alone in that preference. PG, any chance of finding out if there will be a Kindle version?
- Andrex 14y agoAnd a Google eBooks/Play version too, just to round things out.
- rdl 14y agoThere WILL be a Kindle version (I emailed him). I think it's just not listed in pre-order. (I actually convinced a friend of mine who wrote a great new book on dealing with analysts, Up and to the Right (http://www.amazon.com/UP-RIGHT-Strategy-Influence-ebook/dp/B008I5O154 http://www.amazon.com/UP-RIGHT-Strategy-Influence-ebook/dp/B...) that he should do an ebook. For some reason he thought it would cause piracy!)
- hiddenstage 14y agohttp://www.amazon.com/Launch-Pad-Combinator-Exclusive-ebook/dp/B007X5ZBU4/ref=sr_1_5?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1344517093&sr=1-5 http://www.amazon.com/Launch-Pad-Combinator-Exclusive-ebook/...
- sneak 14y ago
- bootload 14y ago"... Silicon Valley’s past is more accessible than its present ..." interesting Randell Stross is a historian & lecturer, "Business and Society and Strategic Management." ~ http://randallstross.com/bio/ http://randallstross.com/bio/ the book intro is here (pdf, 134Kb) ~ http://randallstross.com/thelaunchpad/the_launch_pad_intro.pdf http://randallstross.com/thelaunchpad/the_launch_pad_intro.p...