This is great. I hope the trend catches on for more conferences / events to have these books as a nice momento of the event and reminder of the key points from each speaker.
… though as someone who's done conference reporting, it can get pretty exhausting fast (though for me I usually did the writeups that night and had to have them up the following morning. I used to go home after the conference and basically sleep for a day!)
I work for FiftyThree (the people who worked with Greg to make this). We're hearing from a lot of people interested in doing this - here is another example of a book made from sketchnotes: https://vimeo.com/75830198
That's amazing...and probably a nice little side business there, working with artists to attend events and providing physical books as gifts to conference attendees.
Great hustle Greg, great hustle. Make a startup out of this, launching with tech conferences with your awesome notes and expanding later into other verticals. Bam.
I loved the Startup School Notes and this is the perfect continuation. You've taken all the publicity and activity and directed it straight to a cause which was pitched with emotion and conviction to the Startup School crowd.
It's one of those one of those "see an opportunity, take the opportunity" moments, and I'm really glad you took the opportunity to do both the initial sketches and the book! Thanks!
I know I would. Hell, even just a nicely formatted eBook or nice webpage (like StartupNotes.org) could do the trick plus provide a lower barrier to entry.
I actually chose to donate the proceeds of my book The Rapid Rubyist to Watsi. It's been pretty satisfying to know that the money will actually go for something useful! The book has been a success so that is nice too.
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[ 3.2 ms ] story [ 67.6 ms ] threadThis is your launch^^
It's one of those one of those "see an opportunity, take the opportunity" moments, and I'm really glad you took the opportunity to do both the initial sketches and the book! Thanks!
http://stuff.maxolson.com/On-Startups.pdf
There are other startup-related essays thrown in there too. PG, if you're reading this and want it taken down, please let me know and I'll oblige.
http://www.amazon.com/The-Rapid-Rubyist-Matthew-Stopa-ebook/...
http://startupnotes.org/
It was the best speech IMHO. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WlT3UhC7NwQ