This comment scared me. I don't believe these are affiliate links and I don't want to have anything that can let people track me down yet. I just copied the links from Amazon to the books I've read and found exceedingly helpful.
While I've been monitoring hackernews since it was profiled on TC, I still haven't quite figured out all the rules of how it works.
Am I breaking protocol by alerting of the occasional blog post at MyStealthStartup.com? I've done that once before, over a week ago, thinking some of the audience here would find it useful. Thanks.
This is not an affiliate link (someone complained incorrectly about this on another post from this blog - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=164120). He just read the book and liked it.
Other bigger bloggers (Coding Horror and Raganwald are two big examples) DO use Amazon affiliate links, all the time. And you know what? 90% of books I've read in the last couple years are books I knew about because someone wrote about it on their blog.
If he talked about a book and didn't link to it, someone would complain about him being lazy. So if it's courteous to link, why not throw in an affiliate link? It doesn't change anything for the reader.
Maybe it's my adblocker, but I don't see the amazon link, nor can I figure out why it would be linkbait.
I like these kinds of blogs, because I hope to be a fellow traveller, and I want to learn from their experiences.
One nitpick: "the VC said he was very impressed and that he wouldn’t change a thing." Erm, so, did the VC also say he wanted more info? Interested in investing? I'm not sure I'd take his kudos very seriously unless the one-pager got him to act.
