| Smart Start-ups: How to Build and Profit from Online Communities: How to Make a Fortune from Starting Online Communities | 
 enlarge | Author: David Silver
Publisher: Piatkus Books
Category: Book
List Price: £10.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 329490
Media: Paperback
Pages: 288
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.9
Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 6 x 0.9
ISBN: 0749927887
EAN: 9780749927882
ASIN: 0749927887
Publication Date: May 24, 2007
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 Bad but worth buying June 15, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Other than some good useful tips and pieces of statistical information this book didn't teach me much.
The calculations showing how much Angel Investors and Venture Capital firms want to get although interesting are explained in a confusing way and the numbers don't quite add up in my opinion.
The guy seems obsessed with the thought that you have to charge your users for being part of your community which I totally disagree. There are other ways to monetise from them, selling items, services, etc but not charging everyong $20 a year like he keeps on suggesting page after page.
That's another thing, the book could probably have been about 2/3s shorter if he didn't repeat himself and talk gibberish.
The business models are hopeless.
He puts his contact details in the Intro in case you want to ask him for his opinion on your plan etc - he's an angel fund investor and may help you if he likes your idea. Although to be honest, I wouldn't really trust him to know what I good idea is.
 Great Starter January 5, 2008
David outlines some gems here on real tangible methods of making money from online communities...
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