Amazon.com: Paul Graham: The Art of Funding a Startup (A Mixergy Interview) eBook : Warner, Andrew , Warner, Andrew: Kindle Store

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With Y Combinator application season in full force, this seemed like a topical and timely read. The image of the 'cover' gave me the impression that this was a work with some depth to it.

Let's get the negatives out of the way as a Caveat Emptor:

* This is a 49-page extended interview, and that is being charitable (see next item)

* Actual content is less than one would expect from page count due to random extra text padding each section

* The formatting was obviously not reviewed by a human with even minimal aesthetic taste, because visually, this booklet is a mess. The very first chapter starts with a sentence that's missing the first few words.

* Links are highlighted but inactive. If you're going to highlight in blue and underline something, it had better be clickable and lead to the referenced content. Every such item I tested in this volume was inactive.

On the plus side, the interviews were interesting and included insights I had not seen elsewhere.

Overall, the value received was not equal to the $4.99 I paid. Charging under $2 for this work, the equivalent of a single long-form magazine article, would be more appropriate.