Btw, you can get an affiliate ID (something like stealthstartup-20) from Amazon and only they would have to know who you are.
While I've been monitoring hackernews since it was profiled on TC, I still haven't quite figured out all the rules of how it works.
Am I breaking protocol by alerting of the occasional blog post at MyStealthStartup.com? I've done that once before, over a week ago, thinking some of the audience here would find it useful. Thanks.
Other bigger bloggers (Coding Horror and Raganwald are two big examples) DO use Amazon affiliate links, all the time. And you know what? 90% of books I've read in the last couple years are books I knew about because someone wrote about it on their blog.
If he talked about a book and didn't link to it, someone would complain about him being lazy. So if it's courteous to link, why not throw in an affiliate link? It doesn't change anything for the reader.
I like these kinds of blogs, because I hope to be a fellow traveller, and I want to learn from their experiences.
One nitpick: "the VC said he was very impressed and that he wouldn’t change a thing." Erm, so, did the VC also say he wanted more info? Interested in investing? I'm not sure I'd take his kudos very seriously unless the one-pager got him to act.