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Paul Graham: The Art of Funding a Startup (A Mixergy Interview) [Kindle Edition]

Andrew Warner
2.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)

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From Andrew Warner:

I first interviewed Paul Graham after I heard something shocking from Alexis Ohanian, a founder whose company was funded by Graham's Y Combinator. Alexis came to Mixergy to tell the story of how he launched and sold Reddit.

If you're a founder, you know the kind of problems that founders have, right? Figuring out what product to create, how to build it, how to get users to try it, etc.

Well Alexis didn't seem to have those problems, or at least they weren't as challenging for him as they were for most of the other 600 entrepreneurs I interviewed on Mixergy.

Why? Because Paul Graham helped him launch his business.

How did Graham make Reddit's launch easier and more successful than other companies' founding? How did he do the same for hundreds of other startups? And, more importantly, what can you learn from his experiences to grow your business?

The book you're holding has those answers.

Use what you're about to learn to build your successful startup. After you do, I hope you'll let me interview you so other founders can learn from your experience, the way you're about to benefit from Graham's.

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Product Details

  • File Size: 121 KB
  • Print Length: 32 pages
  • Simultaneous Device Usage: Unlimited
  • Publisher: Hyperink and Mixergy (September 9, 2011)
  • Sold by: Amazon Digital Services, Inc.
  • Language: English
  • ASIN: B005MEG11Q
  • Text-to-Speech: Enabled
  • X-Ray: Enabled
  • Lending: Enabled
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #245,851 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)
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20 of 20 people found the following review helpful
3.0 out of 5 stars Interesting, but overpriced & poorly formatted October 10, 2011
Format:Kindle Edition|Amazon Verified Purchase
With Y Combinator application season in full force, this seemed like a topical and timely read. The image of the 'cover' gave me the impression that this was a work with some depth to it.

Let's get the negatives out of the way as a Caveat Emptor:
* This is a 49-page extended interview, and that is being charitable (see next item)
* Actual content is less than one would expect from page count due to random extra text padding each section
* The formatting was obviously not reviewed by a human with even minimal aesthetic taste, because visually, this booklet is a mess. The very first chapter starts with a sentence that's missing the first few words.
* Links are highlighted but inactive. If you're going to highlight in blue and underline something, it had better be clickable and lead to the referenced content. Every such item I tested in this volume was inactive.

On the plus side, the interviews were interesting and included insights I had not seen elsewhere.

Overall, the value received was not equal to the $4.99 I paid. Charging under $2 for this work, the equivalent of a single long-form magazine article, would be more appropriate.
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
2.0 out of 5 stars Disappointing at best October 11, 2011
Format:Kindle Edition|Amazon Verified Purchase
I don't mind spending a small amount of money to get repackaged content, as long as I know that's what I'm getting. What's disappointing is when (a) the publisher fails to make it clear that I'll be getting content freely available elsewhere, and (b) the publisher so badly fails at the repackaging task. The formatting for Kindle on the iPhone is so bad as to be almost unreadable. Seems to me that packaging the content nicely was, in this case, the only thing you were doing for which you could reasonably expect some money.

"Minimum viable product" != junk. Do better next time, please.
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
2.0 out of 5 stars Badly formatted, no special content October 11, 2011
Format:Kindle Edition|Amazon Verified Purchase
The ebook was badly formatted on my Kindle for iPhone and PC. Hard to read, strange grey characters appeared throughout the text. There was nothing special with the content, nothing new, things that you can find anywhere you search on the Internet, especially Paul Graham's blog.
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Most Recent Customer Reviews
3.0 out of 5 stars No well formatted
This book is not formatted for Kindle so it is very difficult to read the book on Kindle. I downloaded it because it was free but haven't read it because of formatting issues.
Published 6 months ago by Varun
2.0 out of 5 stars Title is misleading
This is much more of an informal interview about how Y Combinator evolved than a book about the art of funding a startup.

The Kindle version format could be much better.
Published 7 months ago by Felipe Oliveira Carvalho
4.0 out of 5 stars Insights...lots of insights.
Let me say that anyone interested in the startup culture must immediately grab a copy of this book. Paul Graham has dissected the entire process of startup funding. Read more
Published 8 months ago by Ved
3.0 out of 5 stars Communicate, a lot!
The most important lesson I've learned from this book is how important communication is; this book exposes a lot of real world examples and first person experiences about managing... Read more
Published 8 months ago by Francesco
2.0 out of 5 stars Content like this really belongs to some blog
I find the interview really shallow. Paul Graham said everything that's already publicly known about him and Y! Combinator. Read more
Published 8 months ago by Milan Babuskov
4.0 out of 5 stars Surprisingly Compelling
I was initially put off by the premise of this concept. Why would I pay 3 bucks for something I can get for free? Interviews are all over news sites and the internet. Read more
Published 17 months ago by Jade Craven
1.0 out of 5 stars Good topic, horrid formatting.
Good topic, horrid formatting. Looks really bad on iOS kindle. Sentences are incomplete, colors are randomly dispursed throughout, very tough to read like this.
Published 19 months ago by Dylan Wreggelsworth
2.0 out of 5 stars Magazine Content
The title of the book caught my interest, but I was sorely disappointed by the layout and content. The "book" contains hardly more than the content of an average in-depth magazine... Read more
Published 19 months ago by Gustible
1.0 out of 5 stars Worthless; Disconnected; Content-free.
Paul Graham talks about how he refines his message to make it
perfectly clear and simple. This book is the exact opposite. Read more
Published 19 months ago by Timothy Daly
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