I've written a book. It details my journey from growing up in a small Oklahoman town, going through prison, clawing my way to get to California, growing a billion dollar startup in San Francisco, and moving on to be a CTO at a startup in London.
It touches a lot on motivation, the value of hard work, luck, and the importance of friends/family while you are building your startup career.
It contains a few technical pieces of jargon, but the book itself is non-technical.
I would really like this to end up in the hands of young people looking for motivation and success story examples.
I have looked at Amazon, Leanpub, and traditional publishing companies as publishing choices. How did you publish your book? And why was it the best way for you?
I was approached by a publisher who had seen some of my writing elsewhere. I pitched a book idea at them that I wanted to write; they liked the idea but not the exact content. I ended up rethinking a few things, and pitching a similar but different idea to them, which they loved.
I got a contract and started writing, and honestly the editing they gave me was unbelievable. I thought my writing was on the 'ok' end of decent, but they gave me some really valuable insights. The quality of the book was much better for going through their process. (It's a book in the Smashing Magazine series, some of which isn't technically amazing, but there are some great books in that series and I like to think my book is good ;)
If I was going to write another book, I'd possibly think about doing it myself, but in all honesty I'd probably go the traditional publisher route again.