Once upon a time I wrote a book. It’s terrible, but it helped me land a job at my first tech startup.
Eighteen months later, I’m considering blowing my last effort out of the proverbial water — a new book.
Inspired by the likes of Gladwell, Fisher, Graham, and Christensen, I intend to bite off more than I can chew with an ambitious research project about markets.
I have a theory that markets implode and explode. A friend calls it “moving towards and away” from each other. But more on that later.
What’s more interesting is how I began my quest 3 months ago after seeing this blog post by Brad Feld, announcing his new publishing company FG Press.
March 2, 2014
I reach out to FG Press on their contact form.
March 3
I get a warm response, am asked for available chat times.
March 21
First call is scheduled but principal is a no show.
April 4
Second call is schedule and principal is again a no show.
May 1
After no correspondence for weeks, I post this on Quora:
Hours Later I get this:
(Their calendars don’t work, but their Google Alerts do.)
So we reschedule. Here’s how that turned out:
May 14
Third scheduled call is postponed.
May 16
Fourth scheduled call, principal is a no show. Later that day I’m told I was being “pinged the whole time, and no response.”
Which can’t be true because I was waiting patiently with 3 book outlines, ready to rock.
May 30
Today I updated my Quora answer:
Then I used credits to promote the answer to 200 unsuspecting folks:
Within seconds I was getting traction:
Then even better traction:
“This is pretty cool” I thought.
So I did it again:
Suffice to say, I think I made a dent.
