10 Signed Copies of Sarah Lacy’s “Once You’re Lucky, Twice You’re Good”

I bet nobody genuinely has a valid ‘reason’ why they need a copy.

so i won’t bs you - but i really want a copy, one of the signed copies.

I wont BS you either… you can keep it. lol.

I am a graduating college senior with a degree in marketing and looking to tackle a few Web 2.0/social networking ideas I have. This book will help me learn from others mistakes, build on my ideas and will be the deal breaker on whether or not I hate Sarah Lacy.

Because I’m still at my first attempt… Will be good to learn why I’m lucky and how to become good at this attempt instead of the second one.

I believe that this book will help me because I am about to go into college this fall and it will help me with my study of web development.

This book will help me the most because its this book.

I’ve been trying to get “lucky” since the mid-70’s. Ain’t happened yet. I think I really need a copy of Sarah’s book so I can finally see what it will be like once it finally happens!

bob wyman

I’m not gonna make up some crap about why I’d like to get this book. But it sounds interesting enough and there’s only one other comment so if you want I’d like a copy also.

I won your last book giveaway, so if I win this one I will be “Good” according to the book I am trying to win….

Thanks……..Rob
BunkerShot.com GOLF - Editor
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As web developer its always good to be up to date in the latest trends of the industry, I actually like her

I would love to get a copy of this book; if I’ve ever seen a title that matches my career, this is it. I’ve created one successful web 2.0 company, and I’ve got my next major venture in the pipeline soon to be released. Hopefully this book could guide me to my second successful company (I’ll make sure to get it featured on TC too ). Thanks.

This book will help me weigh down the random paper I have on my desk that the cats keep knocking off. DAMNIT CAT, GET DOWN.

I want a copy because I’ve got a few projects that I’m working on and really interested to read what she and others have to say about the “web 2.0″ era. Plus, I fully agree with the title. From what I read on Amazon, it’ll be an interesting read that I look forward to.

I will probably buy a copy anyways, but hopefully I am lucky enough to get a copy of the book from you guys and good enough to make all my ideas work!

Come on Mark, you know you want to pick me.

Because for every startup that is coming out with the next best thing, there is just as much of a need for existing companies to learn how to take stock of what they did right, where they failed and how they can make a better go of it this time around.

An existing company with another time around? Yes, a company recreates itself with each new product - so it’s increasingly important to get it right every time the culture changes.

I think this book really helps shine a light on what works and what doesn’t and it would be very valuable.

I need a copy because I think this will be a great reference for my upcoming book “Once You’re UnLucky, Twice You’re …”

Two reasons:

1. I am on my second startup (first one was sold out to a .com) and the current one is doing well and growing, so I would like to feed my ego by having verification in book form that I am good, not lucky

2. I would like to carry the book around, and show it to people who talk down to everyone else just because they worked at a company that had a good exit.

Because my witty comments are what keeps this blog rolling.

I like free books.

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Sarah Lucy is super hot, this is simply why i want to read one her book !

I can’t say very much about Sarah Lacy, but the blurb sounds interesting and is close to the research I’m doing in grad school (mashups and leveraging “web 2.0″ to support end user programming). In the end I’d really like to find a way to leverage what’s out there to create and sell a product. So reading a book about the lessons learned in the Web 2.0 world would be a great help.

Given the fact that I’m working on my first start-up right now, and plan on there being others– I need all the insight and information I can get. I’m also too poor to buy new books so a free one would be awesome!

I need this book because I need to know how I can create an even larger personal PR buzz around myself than the person I am interviewing who is one of the “hottest” web celebs around at the moment (Mr Zuckerberg).

Surely one of the greatest PR lessons ever taught?

I’m a web developer in Canada currently working at a startup with some new graduates and we need all the help we can get.

I need a copy because I’m feeling lucky.

While I agree with Lawrence that I won’t die if I don’t receive the book (although I could potentially die if I did get the book and the extra weight caused my bookcase to topple over and squash me), I would like a copy because social media is the specific area of research I will be studying while pursuing my PhD, beginning this fall. Therefore, every book I can read on the topic will aid in increasing my knowledge base on the subject.

I am willing to risk death by bookcase if you are willing to give me a copy … What do you think?

How this book will help me? Bonus points for creativity?

Really, the best things I can think of that it will help me do are as follows:

Run faster
Jump Higher
Grow Taller
Be More Attractive to Women
Become and Amazing Orator
Grant Me Multiple Honorary Degrees From Each Ivy League School
Help Me Start a Small Site On the Internet That Connects People
Give Me Great Stock Tips The Day Before They Are Needed
Grow My Small Connecting Internet Site Into a Multi-Billion Dollar Behemoth
Make Adriana Lima Fall In Love With Me
Get Me Interviewed By Sarah Lacy For Her Next Book: “Three Times, You Are Andrew Cafourek”

These are all the things I think this book will help me do.

Hi,

I don’t know why I need this book, but I just like free stuffs.

DJ

I think this book would be a great read! Especially after having read “The world is Flat”, i really want another point of view into his hypothesis! Also, being a Computer Engineering student about to graduate next year in Canada, I think it will give me a good insight into the business that I’m studying for nearly every day!

This book will help me with my fetish for buying books and never reading them! I really do love to read.

R

This month, I am writing a masters thesis for grad school (seminary to be precise) on Web 2.0 principles and best practices and how they might benefit Christian non-profits if incorporated into their communication strategies. It looks like this book may be a relevant resource to study. I would love a free advanced copy.

This book will help my company the most because I suck at explaining crap and she can explain everything a lot better.

For on the plane “ride

Mix of Video and Text :) 

Can I get a copy? I want to see if there’s a chapter on business models.

I’d buy one but it’s $18. And I’d need to read that chapter first before I could swing that.

/self zing

Considering I was young and naive enough to jump into the web world post “right after” the dot com crash without realizing it’s true impact, this book may help me understand if my “dumb luck” will run out one day. Or in any case it should at least be an interesting read and conversational topic among friends. I bet I’d get lots of interesting looks reading it in public by those who recognize her name.

Hey, Can I get you to plug my Web 2.0 book too?! Lots of great interviews with big named companies and sites. Lots of insights on Web 2.0, SaaS, Web 3.0 / Semantic Web, and “what’s next”. If TechCrunch sends me a copy of Sarah’s book, I’ll send you a couple of copies of mine to Twitter about and plug. Web 2.0 Heroes is full of great quotes and insightful information. Check out Web 2.0 Heroes (http://books.internet.com/books/0470241993 ).

Because everyone that comes over complains that they’ve finished the John Hodgeman book in the bathroom.

Ater sitting through her terrible interview during SXSW, and not being one of the folks who made a nasty comment to her, I think I deserve a book!

the harder I work, the luckier I get.

on that basis, a short comment will never win me a book (but here’s hoping), but it is true; for even the most talented sportsmen the more they practise, the greater probability they “win”

I actually have the book pre-ordered and was going to send it to Sarah (after reading it, of course) asking her to sign it for me. However, if my Indians trounce her A’s this week, I doubt that she’d do it. I would then have to send her cute pix of my cat and beg.

So I’d much prefer to win one!

Thanks!

Because I’ve only got lucky once and I’m hoping Sarah Lacey can help with the second time so I can be “good”….

Honestly, I’ve had a streak of good things happening to me lately, so why not add on to that by winning this book which will educated me even further about web 2.0. I am not an entrepreneur or a VC, I am just a fan of many of the things going on these days involving communications and the internet. Blogs such as TechCrunch help me keep up with new developments and finding out cool new services which may be useful, but Sarah’s book will help me understand even more about how these businesses came to be, and how they marketed themselves in order to get me to become a user.

That is why I should win the book

P.S.

also because I am awesome

I hope she at least covers some tech women in the book… from what I have been hearing it’s all male centric.

Reading Sarah Lacy’s newly released “Once You’re Lucky, Twice You’re Good” will provide me with the historical reference I need in order to successfully launch my Start-Up online media company, thereby contributing to the evolution of online media and high technology.

Knowledge is all about history. Without an accurate, diligent and humble account of any historical period, whether ancient Rome or the history of Silicon Valley, we lack adequate frames of reference through which to understand our past and, therefore, are impeded when charting a course of our future. We rely on story tellers, journalists and theoreticians like Lacy to make sense of the shortcomings of our past.

I admit that I am also one of the few who supported Lacy when she was recently lynched by bloggers and the twittosphere following her one on one interview with Mark Zuckerberg at SXSW. This was not the bloody Dalai Lama, so her laid back style and flirtatious interludes were excusable. Should her book bet met with a smashing debut, this would be a fitting flipping-of-the-bird (if you will) to all the schmucks who had little better to do that evening than attack Lacy.

In short, give me a copy of the book to enlarge by $35 the espresso budget for the room full of malnourished developers at this ambitious little company, and to increase my odds of having a third successful company, thereby increasing my odds of being a case study in Lacy’s second book: “Thrice You’re %#$@-ing On Fire.”

The reason why I would love to win a copy of the book is that I think it will be really beneficial in implementing the information and strategies here in Australia.

Australia hasn’t had as much of a tech boom as Silicon Valley, and so this would be a great way to learn from those that have been there, and experienced Silicon Valley life.

Also, it would be greatly beneficial in other Web 2.0 programs that are being run here.

Would be incredible to have a copy.

Thanks,
Josh

I actually heard about this book somewhere else and if I’d had Mento then or had dugg it, or made it a delicious link, I could tell you where. But I’m a slacker and I didn’t. I do really want the book but have ordered way too many books recently like for example, I ordered 8 copies of The Adventures of Johnny Bunko: The Last Career Guide You’ll Ever Need for my son and all his friends. Anyways, I like to be in the know about life on the web, just had to do a presentation on Web 2.0: What’s the Buzz? - http://www.slideshare.net/dese.....s-the-buzz - and would appreciate a signed copy of Sarah Lucy’s book to be even more in the know.

the book will help me draw blog traffic.

since i’m an ultra-fast reader and i would have a copy before the rest of the world, i could have the whole thing read and reviewed before the herd.

my post would get to the front of google and linked around the blogosphere and hopefully get me some new subscribers…

oh yeah, and it would probably help sara too

First time I thought I was ‘unlucky’ , next time I was ‘bad’. I’m trying again.. and I can’t go wrong benefiting from this book.

Will help me improve my English reading skills

I need this book because the Title of the book sounds interesting. I won’t say it is a must have but it helps if to read about what other Entrepreneurs went through during start up days. More than anything i want to see who she has featured in her book, I am assuming Kevin Rose, Evan Williams and many more who got lucky twice.

Because if I comment twice and win two copies….

(re-read title)

No doubt I’ll make the best use of this book. I’ve prepared myself not only for it’s great content, but also “backup” uses juuust incase it’s kinda “meh”. For example: “Coffee cup stand”, “Dart board”, and “Birdcage lining”. I literally have hundreds of other uses and have LOTS of time on my hands.

I am planning to write a book too “Once you’re lucky, twice you’re good, thrice you’re exceptional” for web 3.0. May be its too early for that. Reading this book must be the best way to start.

your sssssssooooooooooooooooooooooo good looking! [Seinfeld quote]

This will help me expand upon my learnings from my favorite business strategy book of Web 1.0…Fucked Company.

Because I think the motivation behind most entrepreneurs is their desire to get laid I’d say:

If you managed to get Sarah Lacy in bed once, you’re lucky, twice you’re good. Three times you and I’m calling you Max.

Hard work often equals good luck, but hard luck also can befall good workers.

By reading Ms. Lacy’s book, I hope to maximize the chances of making good on both work and luck.

Thanks.

To raise my computer monitor a few inches. My shoulders hurt from hunching over…

Signed copies sell for more on eBay!

I kid, but seriously being a student is hard on the old finances so sending one of the books in my direction will make the TC folks feel all fuzzy and warm inside.

Ill tell you after i read it but i can tell you this… Luck visits a fool, but it does not sit down with him…. You gotta be good to make it the first time.

…Three Times a lady!

Because I’m famous and have a cool domain name

Actually I have no idea why you should give me one. Have been reading the comments and trying to be funny. But I aint funny ;(

Once you’re lucky? Most startups in Finland don’t make it even once. I’d love to get the insight Sarah has been writing about to further use it to promote Finnish companies through our blog and events.

Secondly, most of the entrepreneurs working in the online industry are males - it would do good for the guys up here to get a little advice from Sarah.

Thirdly, I’d have be able to promote it on our blog to the innovators and early adapters up north.

Good enough?

Me and a buddy is starting up a danish techblog in the next few weeks. We’ve started developing our site, and we’ll be up and running very soon. There aren’t many proper danish tech blogs out there right now, and we have some conceptual thoughts scribbled down in Google Docs for our future national dominance. This book will ofcouse improve our already encyclopedia-like knowledge about web 2.0, and a Facebook forward told me I only have one year left to live in - so please let me know if i get the book. I would be happy to use my spare time reading it!

I’m just starting to get to know the web 2.0 way of thought, student and living in a country (Norway) where few cares about things like web 2.0 (so it’s even harder to find books about it). I’m actually pretty damn alone about caring for the web so a book would be gladly appreciated.

Would help me change the world!!!

Because I work in the newspaper industry.

Seriously.

-Matt

Half of these comments remind me of the time I saw Peter Thiel speak and observed about 20 people approach him after his talk to “pitch” their ideas. Wow, that was embarrassing — I was embarrassed for Peter Thiel and I was embarrassed for the people awkwardly bombarding him with their foolish concepts.

“So, I’ve got this idea about putting people’s gardens on the internet. Do you think it is a good idea? Would you invest in it?”

“I’ve have some theories on the space-time continuum and how it might apply to zero-emission energy. Would you invest something in the range of $3 million dollars to help me get it off the ground?”

Not a single person had a business plan or had even written anything on paper. Not one. Did they expect to impress him so much so that he’d take his check book right there?

I would love a copy of this book for inspiration that you can achieve in life, it just takes a level of dedication that separates you from the crowd.

Because I’m a hindu and I believe in fate, karma and rebirth. Isn’t that what this book is all about?

Want one!

I already read it and its very well written. Thanks to TechCrunch for providing me all 10 copies without commenting here.

Well its enough..where is my copy?

My firm Zigron Inc. has multiple startups in web 2.0 under its umbrella and considering the irony I will like all of them to succeed and any such book/comment/article will be of great help to get us succeed again and again and again…

Hi,

I lived for long time in USA and Oct 2007 moved to Slovenia (Europe). For personal reasons. America spoilt me as far as web applications go and also online shopping. Though this place is in EU (and standard of living sometimes even exceeds western europe), I am apalled to see the lack of web 2.0 awareness here. Even online shopping/b2b is non existent, pretty much brochure ware, as of now. Its not like they lack any sort of means, it seems that they are very content with the state of affairs being all offline.
The only nice apps that people use, and that also only youngsters, are the facebook and myspace, etc etc. And everyone uses gmail, and thats it.

I would like this book because I would use this to educate the guys in my class (I also go to MBA school here). I will keep this in the computer lab in case somepne wants to educate himself about the exciting world in silicon valley, maybe it will inspire someone. And also, it will help me regarding some startup ideas that I am formulating myself after I finish school.
Hope my being here (because you will have to send overseas) is not a negative when you select people to give the book away.

Thanks

i would like a copy of this book because i suffer from a sore neck when i sit at my computer. it looks to be just the right thickness to raise my monitor up to a more ergonomic level.

i would normally just use a ream of copier paper, but i don’t want to waste perfectly good paper. the book would offer me the chance to recycle, since the paper in it is already wasted.

“There’s an old…saying in Silicon Valley…I know it’s in Texas, probably in Silicon Valley that says Fool me once…(3 second pause)… Shame on…(4 second pause)…Shame on you….(6 second pause)…Fool me…Can’t get fooled again.”

Once you’re lucky, twice you’re good, three times you’re God.

I don’t actually have time to read it since I dedicate all of my spare time to reading TechCrunch and practicing up for the the US Air Guitar Championships.

http://www.usairguitar.com/

I’ll wait for the Twitter electronic version to come out. Something like “Web 2.0: we programmed, we hyped, we couldn’t monetize. Chaos. Web 3.0″.

I guess there isn’t anyone ‘Good’ in Silicon Valley then.

Should be “Once you’re lucky, twice you’re stupid”

cause anyone that is worth anything would be smart enough to take the winnings from their lucky venture and retire on an island somewhere with servents and shat.

Would you really discourage a high school senior entering college and enthusiastic about starting a company in Silicon Valley in four years?

Seriously, though - this is what I want to do with my life, and a book like this is the sort I love to read. I hope to have a workable idea submitted to Y Combinator in the next year or two…I’ve got the startup buzz, so to speak.

If you send a copy to Canada, it might keep us distracted and you can invade us for our oil and water.

I don’t expect anybody to really profit “technically” from the book. If you’re very risk-averse, you probably shouldn’t be in the Valley, the book will likely tell us that people took too much risk in the first bubble. Risky things are very often the most successful things. (Google, a search engine in a world where nobody thought search engines would be important and there was big competition; Facebook, funded in a world where MySpace was incredibly big already; etc)

I think it would help me during the several hours flight from Europe to the United States in the end of May, because it will be a good read (at least I think it’s good, expecting Sarah Lacy to be a better writer than interviewer) and help me kill time while flying and waiting.

I am a current high school student who will be launching a new Web 2.0 application and I will be submitting it to TechCrunch50. I also previously built the charity site http://www.shopwisely.org.

Anyways I would like a free copy of this book because as a young mind I think it can help me more than anyone else here, but also because I have to pour all my money into developing my new application so I cannot afford this book on my own. Thank you for reading this.

Everything is BS, like what they all say to VCS, if they are lying for books, it won’t suprise myself we are going to bubble burst this web 2.0 thing with pre-valuation of 10 million or so of companies that doesn’t make any cent of revenue. So yeah you can be a cool programmer, you can a be a good liar, but that is BS, you have to get lucky, so people can listen and get above all the noise and crap.

This book will hopefully help me understand why in my mind twittering has become a synonym for working, TechCrunch a synonym for news, user-count a synonym for revenue, and coffee a synonym for food.

Too many the internet age may have reached super nova stage. Or at least to the naked eye of middle tech America. This book will allow every one to realize we have only reached the parking lot of the ski resort and their is a big tech hill to climb and discover to reach the peak. This will shed that important light on the rebirth or the second breath (of many) of silicon valley.

A signed copy would be nice. Or I will go old school and drive, walk and purchase my own copy!

I’m building a renewable-fuel vehicle that runs on wasted time, wasted space, and wasted energy. This book will enable me to run a fleet of my new vehicles which will then overrun all of the crappy YouTubes out there and gather even more fuel!

My final year college dissertation is on Web 2.0. and so this book would be super handy. I was gonna talk about Arrington and Tech Crunch in it, maybe this would sway my feelings.

I would love a copy. Instead of saying how it would help me, let me offer how I might help Sarah. I would promise to actively discourage twitter bashing of her at anytime in the future. no repeat of sxsw.

No BS here, I’m only a high school student that wants to create his own startup empire. Living in a non-techy area really gave me limited options but by creating a blog (www.cantheworldhearme.com) and immersing myself in web 2.0 I have gained as much experience as possible. I hope to go to college near Silicon Valley and reading this book would really help me get ready for all the ventures I would involve myself in and really live out the culture.

Many people I’m with still think I’m too naiive and that I can’t create a great company with just a wicked idea. But I still think it’s very possible and this book would help me greatly with that.

Why the hell would anyone want a copy of this book?

Have we all forgotten how horrible her Facebook interview went? AKA, The Worst Interview Of All Time?

How about this. I’ll read the book, sign it then pass it on to another tech crunchie to sign and pass it on. That way we all win…for a short time anyways. I’ll let you geniuses work out a way to figure out who gets it next.

Have bootstrapped my first venture nearly one and half year ago when second recession was in whispers. I was involved with a startup during the first recession and have gone through it. Now its my turn to face it without blinking an eye. Hope this book helps and prepares me better.

Best Comment! 

The man who doesn’t read has no advantage over the man who cannot!

I would like to hear what Sarah Lacy has to say without assigning any type of monetary deduction to my checking account. Also giving me the opportunity to own a “signed copy” of the book, just intrigued my interest enough to take 5 minutes of my precious time and simply say why can’t I be one of the 10 recipients? Is it about my website? Great I knew it! I’m 22 and I look 17 so it’s a genetic trait that I’m very fond of thanks, so if those are all the reasons you have for me not having a copy then do email me at your convince.

It will be interesting to read if some entrepreneurs mention that a book, similar to this one, helped them. I wouldn’t be surprised if this is not the case: those books tell us what receipe worked in the past, but you’ll have to find your own way to succeed in a different time and context. Nevertheless, it’s always fascinating and inspiring to read about these guys.

Once You’re Lucky, Twice You’re Good is the story of the entrepreneurs who never gave up on the Internet dream. These entrepreneurs learned from others.

As a high school student, and young entrepreneur, that is where I am at now. I am an internet entrepreneur trying to start my internet dream/company. Because I am young, I do not have that much experience. This past year, I have decided to reach out to ‘experienced’ people (through the internet - Facebook, email, etc) to make up for my inexperience and to pick their brains every now and then. Luckily, most of them that I have reached out to are willing to help and have become friends of mine. I continue to learn a ton from them today. And that is what my goal is: to learn as much as I can, while trying to change the world.

In one word, the reason why I want a copy of the book is to: learn.

Hmm, not very web 2.0ish if its in print. Where can I find the free online version with the contextual based advertising as a business model and social network where we can all discuss the author’s food allergies?

I live in Bourbonnais, Illinois and have spent the last three years working on various startup ideas. Some mildly successful, some not.

In case there was any question, Bourbonnais is not exactly a hot bed of new technology startups. (The obvious question becomes, “Why do you still live there? Move to the valley…” My answer is, “I’ll be there in three months”.)

That background is THE reason why I need this book. Being where I am it is absolutely essential for me to read, watch, and learn about, anything going on in Silicon Valley or other Tech startups around the country. I don’t have the luxury of overhearing startup conversations in a coffee shop, or running into other founders at dinner…I have to refresh TechCrunch every 30 seconds… sign up for every beta… use CrunchBase like flashcards while preparing for a test…and read this book as soon as possible.

Plus, the books that Sarah has actually signed MUST be more insightful than those she hasn’t.

P.S. – If Michael and all the other TechCrunch staff members could please write their best secrets to startup success on the inside cover before sending it my way that would be great…

i can has digg book?

Sarah’s book is the most readable, Techcrunch is the most trustworthy source for web 2.0. So to get Sarah’s book through Techcruch is just the best way there is.

I really want a copy of this book badly….

Why? Because I want to see how many time she says “like” and “Uh” and “Like Totally”. To see that on paper would be “like” totally cool.

I can’t wait for her next book - “How many times can you say Like in a sentence?”.

I need to read this book so that when web 2.0 blows up and crumbles to dust like web 1.0 did, I can curl up with my herbal tea and my cat and enjoy the stories of the good old days, when everyone was going to get rich making useless time-wasting widgets so that people could share all the boring details of their lives in the most excruciatingly boring detail, every minute of the day.

Oh, and to also see if I can steal some ideas to make some money myself–maybe a site where we can comment and share videos of each other commenting and sharing videos. And tagging. And twittering. And digging.

Kids now days…

I would love to have another book in my library of hundreds of unread books. I have good collection of books on startup companies, web 2.0, social networking blah blah, but I didn’t even finish first chapter of any of those books. And this reminds me that this weekend I have to dust off my collection.

Huh? Has T/C lost it?

We’ve been willing to show our faces for a long time. Via Avatars, Gravatars, whatever.

Video comments are not only useless, but for everyone argues that “No one can hear my comment!” (CollegeHumor), surely no one will *watch* your comment as the world stands suddenly still.

I find it hilarious that commenters should comment how this book will help them. How could they possibly know? It isn’t the Bible. We won’t until we’ve read it if it helps us in anyway at all. Or if it just gathers dust with “The Long Tail” (a bust if there ever was one - great article, bad book).

But this post sure helped her out. Just the towering booming authority of a T/C employee positing the assumption that we need her book - and look at all the lemmings lining up like baby sparrows with their mouths open.

C’mon. This is hogwash. When I get a book published, is that all I have to do for free publicity? Give ten free copies to T/C for them to pedal on their site to their readers? Sad.

I love T/C but this is prostitution at its worse. It’s bad enough when we have to scroll past the “500 free access for beta app WunderWeb” posts, but at least I can understand that b/c your audience is highly technical and a good proving ground for new apps.

If you are going to give away the book, just give it away. Hell, just pick ten commenters from bygone posts and surprise ‘em. Instead, you killed about 30 hours of human productivity today between your post and bothering all the sparrows above (and likely more below). Including me. Hey, what a minute! Grrrrrrr…..

What does it cost? $25? Are we all that broke? Gee, maybe the economy really is going down the toilet when people are writing Haiku’s to get free books that will probably never get read. Are they going to use it for toilet paper or as a doorstop? Things are looking bleak.

Seriously, just give her ten copies back and say “Looks like you’ll have to get people to buy them at B&N after all. Best of luck”. Then, I’ll buy one and review it just like I did Kevin Potts latest book yesterday. But this method is just plain nuts.

I’m not going to give you a pity story of why you should give me a signed copy of your book.

Truth is, I’m farily new into the web 2.0 arena and it’s literally my passion. Whether I’m reading TechCrunch in the AM and then listening to a podcast about social networking on my way to work, I’ve entrenched myself into social media and into web 2.0.

I would be blessed, honored and eternally grateful if I could get this signed copy of this book.

Michael, YOU KNOW what it’s like to just start in this business, and have a blog of maybe 100 readers/day and YOU know what it’s like to accomplish your dreams.

Give me some inspriation in achieving mine, please. I would be so honored if you chose me to get this book. I really would be honored.

Thank you!
Jeff McCord

I read your blog every day, all damn day. I read this thing at work and risk getting fired for violating a super strict internet policy. So let me win something, I never win anything from tech crunch.

Well, I didn’t know about the book but now as you describe it I see it’d be a perfect fit for me.
Reason?
I’m writing my Master’s Thesis and the subject is “The Dot Com Bubble Aftermath and the New Reality”.
Can the subject of the book be any closer to my Master’s Thesis? I highly doubt it…
A little twist comes also from the fact thy my Thesis will also include the background on Polish dot com minibubble growth, burst and slow rise from the ashes.
Let’s make a deal - you send me the book (no hard work on your part) and once I finish, I’ll send you my Master’s Thesis. How about that?
Hopefully till then you’ll learn Polish as it’ll be in Polish but there shouldn’t be any problem, as Google Translated started to support Polish in their last update. You should do fine

So the book can counter the feelings left from the Zuckerberg interview.

Because I need to get lucky

Third times a Rose

You are good on Tech Ticker, can’t wait to read your book Sarah.

Mike Arrington : Buy and give another 10 books from Amazon, there’s 110 comments and it’s not over. Come on, you will make Amazon, Sarah and your readers happy and it will cost TC $171.60, chump change for you.

My vote is to #33 Eiso Kant.

1.0 bitten, 2.0 times shy. Wanna understand how I can be twice as good striving in Web 2.0 as once a lucky suvivor in Web 1.0 era.

I rarely write a comment. I am writing this means I badly need one ;).

Moreover, who knows I might be in the list of people V2.0 of this book talks about.

I would like a copy so I can get a definitive answer on the meaning of the term “Web 2.0″

Wow, I could so win this contest…

TechCrunch: Sarah Lacy Book 

I’m always up for reading any book about the sex life of any individual living in the Valley.

I would like to win this book for a number of reasons:

1. I have a couple of ideas for Web 2.0 projects, and this book would help me figure out how t cooler o make them actual websites by examining unsuccessful and successful ventures cited in the book.

2. Stuff is 6.02*10^23 cooler when it is free.

3. Stuff is 1,000,000 times more awesome when it is signed.

4. It will allow me to form a fair opinion of Sarah Lacy that is back up by more than that SXSW interview.

5. When I don’t win contests, I cry, and that sucks.

6. If you guys don’t pick me, good luck countering the negative effects of techcrunchgavethesarahlacybooktosomeoneelseandiammad.com. (Ok, that one was a joke, but I seriously do cry when I don’t win.)

In conclusion, I would really like to win this book.