I've read all but three of these books and I've been building startups for 12 years. Some of them are excellent, some have better alternatives since they were published, and some are outright obsolete/no longer valid.
Which ones are excellent?
Books on Starting a Profitable SaaS Business
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#32Nowadays, you could learn more and faster using Chat GPT-4 rather of reading such books.
My first thought was '20 books on starting a profitable SaaS business that were all actually written by ChatGPT'.
I'm guessing if the 20 books are actually written by people in all seriousness and the belief that they understood and cared about the subject, they're probably still going to be better than what we'll have in ten years, which is 200 books all of which are echoing voids of ChatGPT.
It'll be a lot cheaper to produce such books and put them into the marketplace if you don't actually have to write, learn, or know anything: so much cheaper that it'll become untenable to write 'real' books.
Which mostly means 'marketplace' will stop meaning anything. Knowledge will still mean something but we'll have to arrive at it and disseminate it in different ways that don't resemble the commercial marketplace, as that will not stand up against the cheapness of AI labor.
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#33SaaS always seemed like a way to scam investors, to me. At least with most products...
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#34I've read all but three of these books and I've been building startups for 12 years. Some of them are excellent, some have better alternatives since they were published, and some are outright obsolete/no longer valid.
Which ones are excellent?
Seconded. Also, what are the alternatives?
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#35This seems like selling pickaxes and shovels. 20 books is nuts.
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#36This seems like selling pickaxes and shovels. 20 books is nuts.
It's great for SEO, though. 20 books = more potential search hits and longer dwell time.
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#37SaaS always seemed like a way to scam investors, to me. At least with most products...
Users, not investors.
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#38Earlier quoted context omitted.
This. Maybe reading a few on Blinkist initially but all one really needs: - is repeatedly trying (even on a side project) - first principles thinking/common sense Why? Because: - all those books are repetitive - we learn faster by doing - problems a given project faces at a given time are highly situational
Yeah I really like the idea of Blinkist but I never tried it. Have you?
Very ironic response given the tone of this thread.
How many opinions (err, books) will you need before you just try it yourself?
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#39I've read all but three of these books and I've been building startups for 12 years. Some of them are excellent, some have better alternatives since they were published, and some are outright obsolete/no longer valid.
Which ones are bad and why?
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