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That seems a bit of a stretch. Hackers & Painters wasn't a book about startups. It was a collection of essays about topics related to computers. One of them
by pg 13y ago
That seems a bit of a stretch. Hackers & Painters wasn't a book about startups. It was a collection of essays about topics related to computers. One of them ("How to Make Wealth") happened to be an analysis of the economics underlying startups. But tactical advice about fundraising would have been out of place in it.
- acgourley 13y agoProbably the original parent and I should not have been directing our comments at Hackers & Painters so much as your set of essays on startups before How to Convince Investors. You've served as a source of inspiration which accomplished a net good overall, I simply feel I (and others) went all in with un-calibrated expectations on closing investment. This explains why realism on the topic (your recent essays, alex's article, etc.) is being well received.