please read my comments while wearing a teflon jacket. these are not personal attacks, just my personal thoughts about a book about how to make a web startup. i'm trying to build a new startup and reading all these blogs, and at times it seems like the authors of these blogs are pontificating their thoughts and trying to sell their own book, or speaking engagements, or whatever. So I start the discussion as a jaded a-hole. It's just where I am at right now. sorry.

I don't like the title. sounds like a book about running to lose weight. maybe it'll change by the time the final comes out. i quickly paged-down through 39 pages of the pdf, and most everything seems to be a rehash of stuff I've read on blogs. is the value of the book come from having all these concepts in one place? can a book have value anymore because once it is written it is basically obsolete? and do entreprenuers have time to read a book, especially a 141 page book? in your about the author section you say you've been doing start-ups for 7 years, but you don't explain if the startups became successful, so can we trust what you wrote as a valid recipe for success, or is it just adnecdotal musings of personal ideas, etc. the book is written in the tone of preaching, i.e. this is how to do it, but so far it lacks the exact how to do it steps. I think that is what programmers are most fond of, a book of recipes that show you how to make something work, and they can do it and it works. yes I know, this is a lot trickier. there is no right or wrong, no compiler to validate that you're doing it the right way. maybe this book is more for a business person who will just hire or subcontract a programmer and drive them crazy with pivots every hour :)

that's all the time i have for right now, i'll try to stay up even later tonight (after my coding work has burned out my brain) to read some more and make more comments. thanks for sharing it.