Once you're lucky, twice you're good

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• rythie · Aug 16, 2009 · Recommends

  You could read Sarah Lacy's "Once You're Lucky, Twice You're Good" (which was called "The Stories of Facebook, Youtube and Myspace" when I bought it in the U.K.) It's a light read (suitable for a holiday) and it will inspire you to build your startup when you get back.

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• bcroesch · Aug 2, 2010 · Recommends

  …necessarily teach you how to do it, but reading them definitely helped motivate me when things got slow. Hearing the experiences and successes of other startups/founders always gets me excited to get to work. Once You're Lucky, Twice You're Good - Sarah Lacy Founders at Work - Jessica Livingston The Facebook Effect - David Kirkpatrick

  on “Ask HN: I want to start a web company what books should I read?” ↗
• hoag · Jan 12, 2011 · Recommends

  The books I most highly recommend that I read recently include, in no particular order: - Once You're Lucky, Twice You're Good, by Sarah Lacey. - Founders at Work, by YC's own Jessica Livingston - The Facebook Effect, by David Kirkpatrick I'll list some others as I think of them, but those are my three most favorite recent…

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• snarf · Dec 12, 2016 · Mentions

  …a ton of money via investing in Yelp. He did manage to exit Slide to Google, but I don't know how successful of an acquisition that is considered within Google. There was that Sarah Lacy book called "Once You're Lucky, Twice You're Good" in which he was pretty prominently profiled, so successful serial entrepreneurship must be a prestige thing for him. I agree with you that retail money lending seems a bit desperate and unseemly, and…

• gmu3 · May 28, 2013 · Mentions

  In Once You're Lucky. Twice You're Good by Sarah Lacy, she humorously recounts Max Levchin learning English from TV: He’d worked so hard to be perfect—what could he possibly have done wrong? It wasn’t a feeling he was used to. “Where did…

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• paulrademacher · Aug 27, 2013 · Mentions

  > Once You’re Lucky, Twice You’re Good: Sarah Lacy |Link | The lessons are hidden. Between the lines, it’ it’s THE example of how the Valley press thinks. Read it as an observer, don’t take it at face value, but rather try and learn what…

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• teej · Jul 1, 2009 · Mentions

  "Once You're Lucky, Twice You're Good"