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Re: Show HN: The Found a Business Book – Interviews with Entrepreneurs

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Post by thatthatis »

thatthatis wrote: post #26

Books like this should really offer a money back guarantee. Why? It signals quality and enables speculative purchasing. The quality signal I think is obvious. The speculative purchasing is an incremental sale. Emotionally, I'm not going to purchase this book without a guarantee unless I've decided to commit time to read it. However, with a guarantee I can buy it on the chance that I might read it. It's not logical, I…

Thanks for the downvotes guys. Might be a bit better if you engaged in the argument, but hey, you're busy and you disagree with something. Wish I knew what that something was.

Re: Show HN: The Found a Business Book – Interviews with Entrepreneurs

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Post by jjets718 »

orangethirty wrote: post #28

Interesting landing page. The choice of three feels weird. You usually go from to for the sub-headlines. The being the main hook . I would actually move your second headline ("Do you wish you could learn about business from some of the world's best entrepreneurs?") to the top, and then move the other ones to tags.Adding a picture of the book cover to the page usually helps sales due to how connects the price to a "ta…

Thank you so much for all of this feedback regarding the design of the site. I'll definitely be sure to incorporate some of this feedback when updating the site!

Re: Show HN: The Found a Business Book – Interviews with Entrepreneurs

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Post by jjets718 »

ruswick wrote: post #25

This book looks genuinely compelling, and is the first "HN books" in which I've been truly interested for quite some time. Alas, the price is too steep for me, and, were I in a position to buy it, this book would likely sit dormant in my queue of unread books for months if not years. Still, good luck. (As an aside, the website is downright unusable on mobile.)

Feel free to email me at foundabusinessbook@gmail.com and I would be more than happy to work something out if you want to read it!

Re: Show HN: The Found a Business Book – Interviews with Entrepreneurs

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Post by jjets718 »

kriro wrote: post #29

Bought, will read it on the train on Monday. Excellent timing since I just finished reading all the interviews in "Founders at Work" that were on my most interesting list. I saw that I used Gumroad to pay for it and Sahil is interviewed in the book. I think I'll read that one first :D Edit: Small piece of advice: Imo it looks better and is easier to scan if single points actually have some sort of bullet or similar.…

Thank you so much for buying the book! I think your feedback regarding the landing page design and the design of the table of contents is great, and I will definitely incorporate it soon!

Re: Show HN: The Found a Business Book – Interviews with Entrepreneurs

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Post by josscrowcroft »

cityzen wrote: post #17
josscrowcroft wrote: post #11

I'd like to buy, but ... in the spirit of only pursuing immediately-relevant and -actionable information, is there anything in here about outsourcing, and lessening the time expended on repetitive tasks? 4HWW-type material? Cheers!

Have you read Rob Walling's Start Small, Stay Small: A Developer's Guid to Launching a Startup? Quick read, lots of good info on exactly what you're looking for: http://www.amazon.com/Start-Small-Stay-Developers-ebook/dp/B...

Thanks so much for the heads up :)

Re: Show HN: The Found a Business Book – Interviews with Entrepreneurs

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Post by orangethirty »

jjets718 wrote: post #33
orangethirty wrote: post #28

Interesting landing page. The choice of three feels weird. You usually go from to for the sub-headlines. The being the main hook . I would actually move your second headline ("Do you wish you could learn about business from some of the world's best entrepreneurs?") to the top, and then move the other ones to tags.Adding a picture of the book cover to the page usually helps sales due to how connects the price to a "ta…

Thank you so much for all of this feedback regarding the design of the site. I'll definitely be sure to incorporate some of this feedback when updating the site!

Given that you are currently getting lots of traffic, the best time to test is right now. A .5% improvement could translate into quite a good amount of money.
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