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Launch: Pitching Hacks, The Book (venturehacks.com)
17 points by prakash on Feb 26, 2009 | hide | past | favorite | 8 comments


I read the samples it and seems decent... although heavily spaced with large nicely formatted quotes. I feel like I'd blow through the whole 83 pages on a lunch break. But of course, this might be a good thing... often times the best advice is succinct.

I'm on the verge of buying it, but I probably won't for two reasons. One: many VC's and entrepreneurs have done such a great job at disseminating this information that it's basically free. I don't mind having to do some digging around to put the bits together.

Two: I want to help out. If I save my $20 for myself to continue working on my hack, then at some point I can pitch to these guys and eventually make them more than $20 richer... so it really is to their own benefit.


$19 is the cost of lunch and a couple of lattes. While I don't need the book to learn how to pitch, the humor/entertainment value by itself makes it worth skipping lunch to buy. (Note: this is an unsolicited advertisement. Nivi, if you see this, perhaps you can set up the equivalent of an Amazon affiliate code so I can make 4% off each copy.)


Good practical advice--also useful for bootstrappers--boiled down to 83 pages.


I bought it. It's okay. Most of this is on their (very awesome) website, I think.

Its a bit too heavily spaced in general.


When you buy it (I just did) you get a message with a $5 discount code in it ("for your friends"). I'd share it here (aren't we all friends here?) but I'm not sure if that's OK with the authors.

Is it OK?


I'm one of the authors. It is totally OK. Thanks for thinking of us!


Please share it. But only with me, of course.


the code is PITCHINGROCKS




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