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Great story. Would you mind sharing with the HN community your checklist? I'm sure we could all learn something from that... or maybe would make a nice blog po
by technotony 14y ago
Great story. Would you mind sharing with the HN community your checklist? I'm sure we could all learn something from that... or maybe would make a nice blog post?
- orangethirty 14y agoI will include it on a book that I'm writing. Don't call me a spammer, because the book will be available to read for free online. Once its done, I'll post it here.
- gfodor 14y agoyou should sell it.
- tinco 14y agoYes, sell 50,000 copies at a gross margin of 150% at a net loss of $10,000 ;)
- wtracy 14y agoIn all seriousness, if you've already put in the effort to write a book, it's pretty hard to lose money selling it through a print-on-demand service. (It might be hard to make money, but it's pretty damn hard to lose money.)
- jmaskell 14y agoYou can easily lose money if you value the time spent writing the book and get paid nothing / less than you could have earned elsewhere for it.
- orangethirty 14y agoThere is more to life than money. Writing such a book allows me to share my wealth of knowledge. So what if I don't make a million dollars out of it? That's not the purpose. I want others to benefit so they can grow their businesses. And in turn create new opportunities for others.
- Zarel 14y agoYou can't lose net money if you originally planned to publish it for free, though.
- wtracy 14y agoI said if you've already put in the effort to write the book, in which case that effort is a sunk cost.