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Great question.

Firstly, the more I've gotten involved in business over the years, the more I've come to realise that for any kind of sale requiring human contact, personal relationships are absolutely paramount.

This is fairly straightforward, but it bears repeating. People will buy from people who they like. In a situation where a customer can choose between Vendor A and Vendor B who have similar products and prices, they will choose the likable Vendor A who is friendly and who they enjoy getting a call from. This is 100 times more powerful than Vendor B who has 3 additional features that are really great, but who has made no attempt to establish any kind of relationship with the customer.

As such, the first book I would recommend would be the classic "How to Win Friends and Influence People" by Dale Carnegie.

Once you've got a handle on that, "Ready, Fire, Aim" by Michael Masterson talks about the value of moving quickly, selling quickly, and figuring out the finer details as you're moving along. This was invaluable for me, since I used to want to have everything pretty much perfect before moving. This was negative because it took a long time to get anything to market, and also because theory rarely survives direct contact with reality - the adjustment period in the first stage of operations is critical to the overall success of the project. This book also has plenty of enjoyable personal stories and business anecdotes that make it very readable.

I second "Made to Stick" as a great study on what makes things popular, and how they become popular.

It's really hard to narrow down more book recommendations actually - I've read hundreds of books over the years on a variety of topics. What I found I needed to do, was continuously seek out good books and learn about topics as they arose.

Generally when it comes to book learning and business, I would recommend this : figure out your basic plan, and get started.

Once you encounter your first problem, seek help (ideally from both a mentor and some books).

For instance, you've built a product, now you want to sell it. You hop on Google Ads and put down $400. You've got a solid click through rate, and 2 weeks later, zero sales.

Time to learn about marketing. Seek out some good marketing books (Your Marketing Sucks is very good), buy them, read them, and ask your mentor about them.

Now you're making some sales, and a Sales guy approaches you. He bought your product, and he likes it. He's interested to become your salesperson. Next you need to find some good books on negotiation (Getting To Yes). Of course, you're also going to need to get some advice from a lawyer or a mentor to ensure that the deal you do is fair and economically sustainable.

Different books will provide all sorts of different benefits and insights depending on the stage of your business and your level of experience. Book selection should be a continual process.

Hope this is helpful and best of luck. Please feel free to contact me if you need anything else.
I find it odd that the website for a .net web framework is mediawiki, written in PHP. If a framework isn't used for its own site, doesn't it make said framework suspect in the first place? It lends less credibility than if it just used something like Google Code, GitHub, Sourceforce, etc.
-email a bunch of bloggers, the more the merrier, Even if you don't really think you got a shot, do it anyways. Also email regular media, you never know, they might want to cover you. It's only 5 minutes of your time, and a single hit will make it all worth it.

-hold a launch promotion, give away some ipods, or something along those lines.

-build something your users would want to talk about. It's all about going viral.

for finding bloggers, you can do 5 things:

1. Technorati
2. Alltop
3. SEOTools to see who linked to your competitors.
4. If you are going for any niche outside of tech, there'll always be blog rolls. Use that to jump from one blog to the next.
5. Delicious and other bookmarking sites.
I really think you might be best to start off with something like 'Small business kit for dummies' - not because I think you're a dummy, but because you say you don't know much about business. Instead of books about motivation, leadership, negotiation and so on, you probably need something more down to earth - what your legal options and obligations are, basic accounting and economics, contracts and ownership of intellectual property, and so forth.

Not to say the other things aren't valuable or important, but it's often the seemingly obvious stuff that can end up causing you expensive headaches. The Small business Administration (www.sba.gov) is not that focused towards startups (because on a national scale, a 'small business' is anything with < 500 employees) but they do have all sorts of handy information on their website, and it's all free.
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"Q: You are not really de-anonymizing anyone, because your algorithm cannot link identities to anonymous Netflix records.

Here is how our algorithm works. If you already know someone's identity and a few of the movies this person liked or disliked, you can use the Netflix dataset to find their entire movie viewing history prior to 2005 (provided, of course, they were a Netflix subscriber and their record was one of those released as part of the dataset)."

I don't see how this is the same situation. The NYtimes already possesses my reading history (if I'm logged in), what I am hiding from them is my identity and the work in this paper does not help them find that out. The only thing that will help them with this task is to coerce my ISP to identify an IP address (if I don't happen to be using Tor).
Over nine years, 201 African American people with an average age of 59 and who had all been diagnosed with heart disease were randomly assigned to either Transcendental Meditation or health education classes about diet and exercise.

Where's the control group? Classes about diet and exercise can be rather stressful to overweight people...
That book is absolutely amazing. It's almost a secret weapon for finding work in that it's completely indirect. If you talk to enough people who do the kind of work you want to do, eventually someone will see potential in you and not necessarily offer you a job, but KNOW someone that might. Just talk to everyone that's willing to give you the time, be honest and enthusiastic about what you want to do (and having enough background knowledge to sound competent sure helps), and eventually you'll make the right contact. It's almost certainly not going to be a quick process, but it's an incredibly powerful one.
From those comments: The real battle is not between RIM, Android, iPhone, WinMob, Nokia - it's really between Flash, HTML5+, JavaFX and Silverlight summed it up for me.
Absolutely yes. Really makes a huge difference to think about things in the Entrepreneur/Technician/Manager frame, and things make a lot more sense.
Your product should solve a problem
Can't you do this through COM? (Isn't that the point? I dunno, I've never programmed windows stuff...)
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Thank you. I have that one already and it's top-notch.
I haven't read all of it yet, but so far Peter Drucker's "Innovation and Entrepreneurship" is an excellent read.

It talks about how to think differently, to turn situations to your advantage -- beneficially refactoring your views.

It's not really a starter kit, but I don't think I'd want to operate a business without having read it.
I second this. In addition, +1 for Eric Sink.

Also check out "The Knack" by Norm Brodsky and Bo Burlingham.

In the end, though, no book can prepare you for starting up,
Apple would probably disagree
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It's not free play algorithms that doomed pinball so much as the fact that video game arcades were doomed by improved home gaming systems, and pinball machines are expensive to design, manufacture, and maintain, and pinball operators charge up to $1 per play.
Thank you for taking the time to write this up. It was very helpful!
in your example I might care because it would pay off 1: 1million that you beat tiger. I would rather play a decent game with tiger and would hope to shoot my best.
"Mobile apps require very little development, so it's much easier to bring them onto every platform." is a fairly insulting statement. Mobile apps have serious resource limits and new input methods that require some real UI testing and planning.

Porting is also going to be an issue. The platforms have very different capabilities and conventions.
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Here is the most important thing about the book. The basic motivation for all people is to feel important, you can influence people by making them feel important.
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Most of the books I read are usually business profiles/bios of founders/companies.

1) iCon Steve Jobs: The Greatest Second Act in the History of Business

2) The Google Story

3) The Perfect Store: Inside eBay

4) Paypal Wars

5) Barbarians at the Gate (not tech-related but one of the best business books of all time)
Just a quick critique on roorky.com, you should make it more obvious how many books are available there. As far as I can tell there's only two books mentioned on your site, which are the 2 free samples linked to from the front page. Are there any other books available? Having the same short attention span as any typical web surfer I did not dig into your site any further than 2 or 3 pages to find out what other books you had, so then I left. And no, I will not create an account and login just to find out. If you have more books then I should at least be able to browse the titles and table of content without logging in. If the focus of your offering is online books then you should jamming your catalog in my face bragging about how many books you have and teasing me with titles and sample pages from each book. And if these books are all over the web, then still your site ought to feature a centralized index of other iPUB books and where to find them.

Also make sure the content of those books is being indexed by Google even if there is a paywall to read them.
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If you're considering a type of meditation, I suspect the consensus of Hacker News meditators is for Vipassana meditation. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=587032 The book is free. http://mail.saigon.com/~anson/ebud/mfneng/mind0.htm
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I looked again and it seems to all be .cfm extensions.

So perhaps a Cold Fusion vulnerability.
MacRuby relies on the Objective-C garbage collector, which is disabled on the iPhone.
Sailer's posts were not screeds. They were well-argued and relevant, just like his contributions in the current debate. He was not banned. Gladwell made his readers vote whether or not he should stay, and they overwhelmingly voted in support of Sailer. Nor were his comments removed.
This gave me a laugh, and I give it bonus points for traveling to hacker news at the speed of meme.
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Ask HN: Sorting items by rating & date?
I'm in the middle of writing a small app at the moment and I have come up against a roadblock with my understanding/terminology...

I'll use HN as my example:

When a new comment is posted, it temporarily out-ranks older posts that have a higher rating and then as it ages it works it's way down to it's final display position.

How is this achieved? I have doing some research to find out how it's done, but I'm obviously not looking in the right places as I have come up with diddly...

If anyone can explain this to me that would be great. Extra points if the sorting can be done in MySQL!
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there's a certain delicious irony there, n'est ce pas?
I became interested in e17 nine years ago when its development started. I'm not sure if I should feel impressed or cynical at this point. When I was first learning Linux back before the turn of the century, I found enlightenment to be the most cutting edge desktop environment I'd ever experienced. It has been quite a while since then, and desktop environments have come a long way. At this point, I'd be very surprised to see something disrupt the entrenchment of what have widely become widely accepted as the default environments across platforms. That being said, I am very curious to see what so much work has resulted in, so I'll be checking this out.
Couldn't agree with you more. I agree with "release-early-iterate-often" however the notion of "never launch, just iterate" is bad advice IMO. This is also one of the few times I was surprised that more HN readers didn't poke holes in this blog post, but I think that's likely attributed to hacker ego in regard to "marketing" vs "engineering".

A few thousands visitors does NOT mean you're doing things right, in fact it could be reinforcing poor judgement and a bad product. I've seen this happen countless times by founders who didn't know when to stop drinking their own kool-aid and meaningfully evaluate product holes because a handful of visitors swore it was the best thing since slice bread.
They might now but the iPhone didn't need apps to start selling.
> It means that you are likely to see top-quality electronic devices running the same things you use on your desktop.

In other words, we're making all the money while you suckers do all the work.
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Recoveries would (likely, for now - less likely a few years from now) be more often necessary and slower for most users all else being equal, but it's not that simple.

First, if users have software freedom and are running the system on servers under their own control, they are free to spend as much as they like, exactly how they like, to improve reliability. That's the main point of $2^N analysis: if Alice's Transnational Inc. stands to lose up to $500K on a given day if the service is out, she can buy insurance in terms of back-up servers (and her back-up servers only need to serve her users, not every user of the software, anywhere). Alice is not limited to the same QoS as Bob's Main St. Paint Store. 37signals has to optimize its present and future profitability - not Alice's value received. There's a misalignment of incentives, there.

Second, if the software were free and generally deployed in a distributed, decentralized fashion, it's architecture could evolve to be more of a P2P system such that many different servers would all have to go down at once to cause more than a slight inconvenience and performance degradation.
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This is really awesome; I've been a fan of enlightenment for a while and personally think it deserves some wider appreciation.

However, not to be a Nattering Nabob of Negativism (to steal a phrase from Spiro Agnew), but the enlightenment project predicted an alpha release[1] of e17 in September; it's now November, and there hasn't even been a snapshot since July. That isn't on the top of the list of ways to impress large corporations.

[1] http://trac.enlightenment.org/e/wiki/ReleaseSchedule
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The screenshots look pretty much the same as the Enlightenment version I used more than a decade ago. Which is to say, really awesome, if you're an eleven year old boy...but kind of dorky if you're a grownup with reasonably grownup taste. While it was amazing to use a computer that looked like a scifi movie, the novelty wore off pretty quickly, and I switched back to WindowMaker, and eventually to various others (including a few tiling window managers, and Sawmill or Metacity).
There currently exists one botique manufacturer of pinball machines but its fair to say that innovation stopped in 1992.

I don't think that's fair to say at all. Williams tried to save the Pinball industry by inventing the Pinball 2000 platform which had reflected video over the playfield. It was definitely as big an innovative step as anything that cam before since the invention of the flipper.

Also, I might be biased having been 14 at the time, but I wouldn't call The Addams Family the end of innovation. I would call it the beginning of maturity. The machines Williams released in the 90s and the Stern machines of today reflect the perfection in pinball playability. The precise shooting lanes and the deep rulesets gave rise to 15 years of amazing machines that are just as much fun for beginners as they are for experts.

It's a real shame the pinball machines are so expensive to maintain and thus so rare to find in good operating condition. When I see my first real liquidity event I plan on purchasing some of my favorites (The Twilight Zone, The Addams Family, Attack From Mars, Indiana Jones, Simpsons Pinball Party, Lord of the Rings, Star Trek: TNG, Arabian Nights, Medieval Madness, etc)
I'm going to go ahead and recommend "4 Hour work week" by Tim Ferris, BUT - you have to take that book with a big grain of salt. Some of the stuff he's talking about is fluff, and he's gotten some fair criticism over it - but he has some invaluable, very practical advice on automation of certain areas of a business, passive income streams, etc. Personally, I found it very helpful in moving from "full time job, but want to start my own business" stage to geting there and doing it full time.
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Yes, and it has an angry and evil look. A very bad logo. Surprised that it made it thru. Even Scott McCloud did not notice this?
I have no idea why the E devs are delaying the release of E17. I tried it for about week, and it works just fine. It gives you a lot of eye-candy to gorge yourself on, and most of it is tasteful. The performance is great, too.

I think at this point, the E guys should put up a 1.0 release candidate for public consumption. I'm sure the pace of development will pick up once thousands of users are breathing down their collective necks.
Wow, this give an experimental basis to the distinction between "conscious competence" and "unconscious competence".

The thing I would be very curious about is whether other activities have the same dynamic or rather, in what activities is "thinking" more necessary in even when one achieves competence?
Benzinga.com has pretty good links on it.
http://www.Benzinga.com
Mobile apps have serious resource limits

Aahahah, that's funny. Smart phones are as powerful as the box I used to play Tribes and Wipeout on. They have more than enough resources to do things.
how are you going to make money from this?

edit: Commercials?
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Ask HN: Anyone suffering from ADD?
I think I have ADD. I'm wondering if anyone here has been diagnosed and being treated. How is it working for you?
I think people around here fall into a thinking trap regarding "reviews".

The average user perceives no value from the opportunity to review your application. That sounds suspiciously like work! They perceive value from using your application (one would hope, anyway). I think folks here say "I need folks to review my app" because you think that that gets you "You will, naturally, publish that review somewhere which is visible", but this is sort of putting the cart ahead of the horse. Get the use first and you will get the talking later, rather than the other way around.

(This is one place where TechCrunch et al distort our perception of reality. TechCrunch et al will use any application just because it is new and shiny. New and shiny iPhone-enabled social network for blind dog walkers? Whatever, we'll give it 45 seconds just so we beat ReadWriteWeb to the first post about it! Conversely, TechCrunch et al will not use an application just because it is old, despite the fact that it actually provides value to Actual People. Actual People are not a constituency of TechCrunch et al.)

Bootstrapping your way into users isn't necessarily a fun place to be. I really can't pound the organic SEO drum enough -- it is cheap and anyone can do it. Write stuff which solves the problems of your target market. Bonus points if the stuff you write recommends they try your app for more of the same pain relief.

Incidentally, SEOMoz has a few oldie but goodie articles about "linkerati". Study carefully the factors which make content easy to consume and the factors which make content easy to recommend. (They're not co-extant. Content which is easy to consume but not easy to recommend, such as a lolcat picture, is not a high priority for you if you have no users.) This should inform what sort of stuff you build to ramp folks up in the early day. If it is too hard to recommend the trial because it takes hours of setup before you start seeing value from it, write a whitepaper. If the whitepaper takes too long for the average customer to "get", condense it into a blog post. Keep reducing the barriers to having your new best buddy in the world tell his friends/peers/readers about you.
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Well, I used to program the Atari 400, but people expect a little more these days. I'll bet the machine you played Tribes and Wipeout on had a larger screen than an iPhone. Compared to what more programmers experience on the desktops, the current crop of smart phones requires resource management in terms of CPU, memory, storage, and screen real estate.
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