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"From 37signals' point of view it's the only way how entrepreneurship should be approached while heavily despising other ways" Nope. It's not the only way. It's one way. There are lots of ways to build a product and run a business. Getting Real is what we've learned. Same with REWORK - it's our experience and advice in book form. Neither book pretends to be the only way. If you have your own unique approach, and you…
> Nope. It's not the only way. It's one way. I don't know if DHH agrees on that—maybe you should check his latest post. > If you have your own unique approach, and you think your experience can be valuable to those who haven't had your experience, take the time to write it up and share it with the world. Good idea, thanks, but I won't write a book. Reading HN for some months gives starters the same full experience bu…
I am not a fanboy of Graham but as an example I do find Grahams essays more appealing, much closer to reality and thus more helpful, maybe not always that thrilling and motivating as Get Real was 5 yrs ago, but much more precise and expressive when describing startup business and what's really about. I remember one essay which discussed single versus multiple founder startups and I've never read before such an accurate picture of this topic. Motivational books like Get Real are good to just get started but I am afraid that that's enough to be successful and to finish in the long run.
Their cookie-cutting black'n'white reality tells you, yeah everything is great, just do it, yes, you can. Then you start happily (which is great) but stop 3 days later without having a clue why things doesn't work out, grabbing the next cheerful self-help book and think it must be your fault because 37signals is 'so' successful and they must know how it works—no you just didn't get the full picture, essential building block were omitted. Besides: success is relative, just compare success stories from Dropbox, Airbnb and Basecamp, really different beasts and way of thinkings behind them (with good reason). When I read Get Real yrs ago I tried it like they said and I wasn't a fraction of that successful of what I was after reading 5 months HN.