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Startup School Notes: The Book – Profits go to Watsi

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I loved the Startup School Notes and this is the perfect continuation. You've taken all the publicity and activity and directed it straight to a cause which was pitched with emotion and conviction to the Startup School crowd.

It's one of those one of those "see an opportunity, take the opportunity" moments, and I'm really glad you took the opportunity to do both the initial sketches and the book! Thanks!

Thanks!

I actually chose to donate the proceeds of my book The Rapid Rubyist to Watsi. It's been pretty satisfying to know that the money will actually go for something useful! The book has been a success so that is nice too.

http://www.amazon.com/The-Rapid-Rubyist-Matthew-Stopa-ebook/...

This is great. I hope the trend catches on for more conferences / events to have these books as a nice momento of the event and reminder of the key points from each speaker.

I had a few conferences reach out to me. I'd love to do more!

Perfect. You could go to conferences free for life and make a nice side business from it.

… though as someone who's done conference reporting, it can get pretty exhausting fast (though for me I usually did the writeups that night and had to have them up the following morning. I used to go home after the conference and basically sleep for a day!)

I work for FiftyThree (the people who worked with Greg to make this). We're hearing from a lot of people interested in doing this - here is another example of a book made from sketchnotes: https://vimeo.com/75830198

That's amazing...and probably a nice little side business there, working with artists to attend events and providing physical books as gifts to conference attendees.

Great hustle Greg, great hustle. Make a startup out of this, launching with tech conferences with your awesome notes and expanding later into other verticals. Bam.

This is your launch^^

This is a video of the founder of Watsi speaking at startup school.

It was the best speech IMHO. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WlT3UhC7NwQ

This is wonderful. Watsi's ability to motivate us toward charity is really encouraging.

In the spirit of Balaji Srinivasan's talk, how about accepting bitcoin? At the time of this comment, USD $40 = 0.19388 BTC = 193.88 mBTC.

How many people would buy a book of PG's essays with all profits donated to Watsi (or one of the next YC non-profits)?

I know I would. Hell, even just a nicely formatted eBook or nice webpage (like StartupNotes.org) could do the trick plus provide a lower barrier to entry.

How about a PDF? :)

http://stuff.maxolson.com/On-Startups.pdf

There are other startup-related essays thrown in there too. PG, if you're reading this and want it taken down, please let me know and I'll oblige.

Not for charity, but his book Hackers and Painters is a collection of essays.

Greg, superb!!! Can't praise you enough for this. Well done!

40$ for another person notes on somthing published for free?

The notes used in the book are available for free, too:

http://startupnotes.org/

Do you ship internationally? - Malaysia

Yes, we do ship to Malaysia. Shipping does cost an extra $5, though.

What about Pakistan :)

Yes, Pakistan too.

Amazing. Keep up the great work Greg!

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