Give me a break. No self respecting "nerd" would call himself a nerd.

..here comes the white knights.

Just another example of selling pickaxes in a gold rush.

Just a friendly warning: The overall tone of your comments seems to be rather negative and kinda hostile, especially to people who make money from teaching, and as a result your karma is currently negative. If you keep on this way, the system is going to hellban you. I'd recommend sticking to productive rather than destructive comments, at least until you get a good feel for the community's standards.

I'm going to assume that it's because you're new here that you have a chip on your shoulder. Understandable.

But, simply by looking at how long it took her to get to that revenue number, why would you think her program is "get rich quick"? Years is not quick, in Internet, Business, Internet Business or any other metric of time.

Thanks. I'd hope if I were a liar trying to convince you to buy my "get rich quick" program, I'd make up a better lie than 3 years, haha.

FTR: just under 30% of the revenue last year was from my class, but that's primarily because A) infoproducts pay bigger lump sums, faster than subscription income and B) we haven't yet publicly launched Charm (http://charmhq.com) which will drop very soon. Charm has already added ~$24k/yr to our baseline even while being invite-only. Pretty much all the revenue from my class was rolled into funding product development for our SaaSes. It's my Be Your Own Angel tactic.

Amy publicly announces the prices and enrollment for each class, so you could have easily tested this hypothesis. Last year, the posted numbers would put 30x500 class revenues somewhere around $160k (give or take a few grand depending on how many used discounts) — so as Amy says, a supermajority of her income must come from other sources.

Where did you learn it? At your father's knee? We all have to learn from somewhere.

No, they are dumb, and you can find them in abundance in pretty much any MBA entreprenuership class.

I believe there's even a startup that sells startup "plays", which are just excel spreadsheets with todo lists, and they're killing it.

Steve Blank has been in the StartUp world for decades, just check his about page: http://steveblank.com/about/

And compare it to the author you're talkin about http://www.ashmaurya.com/about/ that clearly states in his page "In late 2009, I ran into into Steve Blank’s lectures on “Customer Development” from where I followed the trail to Eric Ries’ early ideas of the Lean Startup."

I seriously doubt Ash would have ever written "Running Lean" if it weren't for Steve. The whole notion of the "lean startup" emerged partly as a result of the influence of Steve Blank's work, on Eric Ries and others. Of course it would make sense that there would be overlap between the work of Ash and Steve (and Eric and others as far as that goes) but I very much doubt that Steve's book is in any way a "ripoff" of the book Ash wrote.

> Thanks for the downvotes because you kids can't read. I'm talking about the "Nail It Then Scale It" book being a copy, not "4 steps.."

A perfect example of why it's good to quote what you're replying to. Your message was so far over to the left, and was pushed down far enough below the actual post you were replying to, that the context got lost. Scrolling down the HN page, your reply appeared to be a reply to the parent post, implying you were calling Steve's book a ripoff.

Except it seems to have been published before Ash Maurya's.

Emphatic no!

The seminal work from which Ash's book (and mine) sprung was The Four Steps to the Epiphany, published in 2005.

I'd love to but I don't use FaceBook.

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