<story><title>The Art of Profitability</title><url>http://codingvc.com/the-art-of-profitability</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>sivers</author><text>Don&amp;#x27;t knock it &amp;#x27;til you actually read it.  The succinct snippets given on CodingVC&amp;#x27;s blog don&amp;#x27;t do it justice.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s one of the most interesting business books I&amp;#x27;ve ever read - one of the only that&amp;#x27;s worth reading multiple times.&lt;p&gt;You can see my more detailed notes from it, here:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://sivers.org/book/ArtOfProfitability&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;sivers.org&amp;#x2F;book&amp;#x2F;ArtOfProfitability&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Or if you&amp;#x27;re the video type, I did a conference presentation about it, here:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://vimeo.com/15088740&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;vimeo.com&amp;#x2F;15088740&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>The Art of Profitability</title><url>http://codingvc.com/the-art-of-profitability</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>idlewords</author><text>Profitability is like weight loss. Extremely straightforward, in principle.  Charge money and keep more of it than you spend. What could be so hard about that?</text></comment>