Traction Book available for pre-order – G. Weinberg (DuckDuckGo) and J. Mares

Re:Traction Book available for pre-order – G. Weinberg (Duck... by yegg on Monday July 21, 2014 @10:47AM (#8063908)

Co-author here. I actually started exploring this book topic in late 2009 through an initial series of open-ended interviews that were discussed on HN (when it was much more startup focused). Here is that set: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6r4nAnkQO3VpddRSVwUVDg (e.g. patio11 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wuzNs-LhC_8, Alexis https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enEqAq1x9UQ, Garry Tan https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Win0moC4cA).

I started angel investing around the same time and I quickly came to the conclusion that the pursuit of getting traction needed much more structure more akin to product development. I also got increasingly busy with DuckDuckGo, and so it took finding a co-author and many years to actually get this book across the finish line.

Here's my post from a few days ago summarizing the book: http://www.gabrielweinberg.com/blog/2014/07/pre-order-tracti...

Happy to take any questions.

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Re:Traction Book available for pre-order – G. Weinberg (Duck... by hadoukenio on Monday July 21, 2014 @05:28PM (#8066113)

Is there going to be a PDF version? I'm not a fan of Kindle (can't copy/paste to make notes and page flipping is slow). I'm even willing to pay for a DRMed version of the PDF rather than a DRM-free kindle!

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Re:Traction Book available for pre-order – G. Weinberg (Duck... by basiliothecat on Monday July 21, 2014 @11:36AM (#8064179)

Hey Gabriel! Wodner if you plan selling a DRM-free book? That'd i believe be expected and really appreciated.

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Re:Traction Book available for pre-order – G. Weinberg (Duck... by yegg on Monday July 21, 2014 @11:41AM (#8064208)

Yes, the Kindle version will be non-DRM.

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Re:Traction Book available for pre-order – G. Weinberg (Duck... by edgecrafter on Monday July 21, 2014 @12:05PM (#8064303)

ETA for kindle version ?

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Re:Traction Book available for pre-order – G. Weinberg (Duck... by yegg on Monday July 21, 2014 @12:17PM (#8064374)

They don't let you set them up for pre-orders if you aren't a major publisher, so 8/12.

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Re:Traction Book available for pre-order – G. Weinberg (Duck... by edgecrafter on Tuesday July 22, 2014 @06:14AM (#8068164)

that is August 12'th I assume, same day as print version is out .... "what, December" were my first thought :-)

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