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Re:Ask HN: Hacker to Hobbyist to Entrepreneur? by elbrodeur on Saturday January 22, 2011 @01:33PM (#2130760)
There isn't a handbook: There are thousands. All of them written by people who made it, academics who understand it or people who were on the sidelines when it happened.

The tricky part is: You just have to do it. The handbooks won't help you with that, unfortunately.

Ship it and see what happens.

Re:Ask HN: Hacker to Hobbyist to Entrepreneur? by bobds on Saturday January 22, 2011 @01:54PM (#2130799)
You forgot the many people that write handbooks full of made up shit. So you have to keep the following two rules in mind:

Be careful of whose advice you buy.

Free advice is not always free.