Website & Chapter 1 Out.
by Jessica LeoI outlined and drafted out the content of the book. I didn't realize it is so hard to publish something (I kept going back to edit, edit, and edit), because I want it to be good and useful to people.
So far, I am able to get the website and chapter 1 out. My goal is to treat it as MVP and see if I can get some feedback from the community as I release the upcoming chapters. This can def help me.
I also call the book "How to Fail as a First-Time Founder" because I want to be direct and I don't want to hide the fact that this book is more about sharing failures than to share winning formulas. So yeah, https://www.thefirsttimefounder.com/
I totally don't know how people will react to chapter 1 or the whole concept, but overall, it is more a project for me to reflect myself before I move on with my life, so either way, I'd be happy that I've done this.
![Icon for How to Fail as a First-Time Founder [eBook]](https://www.indiehackers.com/images/avatars/product-6.png)
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No wonder 9 out of 10 startups fail :-)
Also typo: "Why wasted precious time waiting" .
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Thanks for reading @solus! Yeah, especially for first-time founders, because the 1st time is really about hitting our heads into the walls...
Any feedback for website & chapter 1 so far?
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Writing and formatting are nice, short and to the point, it was pleasure to read. But I wonder how can you actually make a book out of it? :-)
It seems more like a blog post, and you pretty much covered all the major issues in the first chapter...
Such books are usually written about big companies with long journey, like Netflix or Snapchat.
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Thanks for the comments on the writing and formatting - I will def keep to it!
Chapter 1 is not yet the main story, it was what led up to me being hired as the startup CEO to turn the whole thing around, there are much more coming about how I managed the company after taking over, found a new idea to work on etc.
Yes - with this writing style, calling it an eBook is a bit overstating, it is more like an eStory. :)
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