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Chris Guillebeau shares ideas for living life in a non-conventional way. He has never felt trapped in a career office job, has been his own boss in a number of entrepreneurial ventures and enjoys spending his free time in what he personally finds to be a fulfilling way. Now in his new book, this young visionary shows readers how to have it all - by creating a micro-business on the cheap that generates sufficient income to support a life of meaning and adventure.

The $100 Startup is a smart, accessible and inspirational guide to changing your work life to change your life. Using case studies from the US and around the world, it helps readers identify their own skill or passion that can lead to a profitable business.

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Chris Guillebeau is a writer, entrepreneur, and traveler. During a lifetime of self-employment and ventures ranging from online publishing to volunteer work in West Africa, he has visited nearly every country on earth before the age of 35. Host of the World Domination Summit, an international gathering of creative people, Chris is focused on encouraging individuals to live fulfilling lives with inspiring and practical advice. His main website, ChrisGuillebeau.com, is visited by more than 300,000 people a month. --This text refers to an alternate kindle_edition edition.

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Learn how to be your own boss and spend more time living your life. --This text refers to the paperback edition.

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Publisher: Macmillan; Main Market edition (1 June 2012)
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Finally a Business book true to its Headline!

Reviewed in Australia on 29 June 2017

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Thanks Chris , this book is the perfect antidote to the hype of the "grow fast and scale" mentality that surrounds entrepreneurship these days , you show it's ok to start small and stay small if that's what you want .
I believe the advice and the case studies in this one book will get thousands more to actually START their businesses than hundreds of other "business" books combined .

Loved it !

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Interesting case studies on startups!

Reviewed in Australia on 27 August 2019

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The author does a great job of putting together numerous cases studies to provide insight on various aspects of starting your own business.

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lewis

Great book for people looking to start a small business of their own

Reviewed in Australia on 24 August 2015

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Really enjoyed this book. Not only was it insightful and easy to follow, it gave the key takeaways from each chapter at the end of each chapter to refer back to when needed

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Awesome

Reviewed in Australia on 31 January 2016

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What an insight, this book has helped re-shape the vision and clarity of my small business. Cheers and Thanks Chris!

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C. Schutte

Four Stars

Reviewed in Australia on 27 October 2014

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Pretty good... Nothing ground breaking, but some inspirational stories.

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Zoe Stuart

It's a winner

Reviewed in Australia on 12 August 2014

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Brilliant, thought provoking & realistic... Loved every bit of this book.

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Justin Rooke

Five Stars

Reviewed in Australia on 14 October 2014

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Great read!

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Rio

Simplistic, superficial and offers little insight

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 19 April 2019

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A few things to note if you are thinking of buying this book:

1. It's basic. I mean really basic. It is full of simplistic suggestions such as "every morning, set aside 45 minutes to think about your business. What can you do to move things ahead (p.235)", and "in deciding what to sell, the best approach is to sell what people buy (p.33)". The patronizing guidance it provides almost assumes that the reader is unaware of really, really obvious and sensible things, which is really frustrating.

2. It is full of superficial examples based on random people - Kyle, Gary, Sarah - who are these people? And some of the examples appear unhelpful. For example, the author tells the story of Kyle Hepp, who got fired from her job, but having dabbled in a little photography before, she decided to take up wedding photography with her husband and now they earn $90,000 a year. This is one of many unhelpful anecdotes based on random people and unnamed companies (which by the way, sound completely made up) which add zero value for the reader.

3. All of the case studies in the book are about people who quit their jobs and do microbusinesses that earn them between $40,000 and $60,000 a year. In the greater scheme of things, that isn't too bad a salary, but remember this book is aimed at telling you to quit your job, and note the average salary in the UK is £35,423 (US$46,014). My point is, if you are telling people to quit a comfortable, steady job to start a start up, basing your "success stories" around start-ups that generate just about the same amount of money is not exactly inspiring. In fact, it is quite de-motivating. We need to be realistic. People have families to feed. Who on earth would quit a stable job to start their own business and expose themselves to financial risk (there is actually a chapter on failure in the book) just to end up in the same position financially?

In summary, if you are as good an entrepreneur as this author is a writer of start-up books, don't quit your day job.

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jason gore

A book that's for everyone ...but is that a good thing?

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 23 October 2017

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In between the stories of the many types of people who went from zero to hero with their startups, there's very little substance. Each story seems to fit a different personality, which eventually resembles a reader of the book and makes them say "That could be me". I couldn't help notice this after the second chapter and it kinda put a downer on the book after it. A bit like watching friends on tv and noticing the fake laughter in the background. Flicking through the book it felt like I've read it all before in more depth elsewhere, "The 4 Hour Workweek", "The Lean Startup" some Tony Robbins stuff. A grand read for the motivated newcomer, but come back in a year and tell me how the startup went.

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Could be shortened in 10 pages

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 5 April 2018

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Lots of pages to repeat the same thing. Case studies are superficial and simplifying. The book can be summarised in 1 sentence: start simple and early, keep it low budget/low risk, cash the money and go to the beach

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Subho M

Typical To DO book for starting your OWN BUSINESS!!

Reviewed in India on 21 February 2019

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While reading this book , I made an account in Fiverr. And guess what! I sold my work to two gentlemen, one from USA other one from Malaysia in last three months. Though I didn't push enough if I did I can generate more customers o believe but it's not that easy when you are a full time student.
But I highly recommend this book for those who want to build their company (even if it is a small or a medium one!) And don't want to work on someone's supervision, want to be the boos of own, this book for you guys. Make sure you complete the book. Even if you don't I am sure you will do something on your own by then!!!

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Karim B.

Good book but mixed feelings

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 5 July 2017

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I read this book right after the 4-Hour Work Week by Tim Ferriss and I have to admit I had mixed feelings about it.

Pros:
- Good motivation to start a business (no excuses)
- Many success stories and business examples
- Easy read although sometimes it is hard to follow the different stories (the author leaves a story pending, tells 10 others and then comes back to it when we already forgot what the original story was)

Cons:
- Barely any substantial tool or technique to benefit the reader (not like the previously mentioned book)
- I personally had the feeling that I already knew most of what was in the book

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A bible for startups and entrepreneurs

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 25 March 2019

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Simply a must for anyone who wants to throw in the towel on their 9 to 5 and turn a passion project into a viable business run on their own terms. Whatever stage of the journey you’re at, there’s tonnes of practical tips to uplevel your progress, as well as inspiring ‘real world’ case studies from those who have gone before. Thank you Chris for providing hope to those of us who want to marry purpose and freedom with profitability.

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Alessandro Orlandi

I found it very boring honestly. It contains lot of stories of people ...

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 10 October 2017

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I found it very boring honestly. It contains lot of stories of people who created a small business but very few advices on how to do it.

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Mr I B Paul

Possibly the most informative and useful book I've ever read

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 23 August 2017

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This book is packed full of great advice for the budding entrepreneur and has certainly motivated me to start doing something I've had on the back burner for ages. The section on marketing and promoting your product was very useful as was the countdown to launch section.

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Nze

Confidence boost for cash strapped entrepreneurs!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 5 September 2015

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This is a really awesome book. It makes business seem very attainable from wherever you happen to be. I could relate to so many of the people who started small businesses with modest skills and little money and actually began to see in my own past some of the very same jump-off points where I could previously have started something. But I had grown distracted by and weary of reading other start-up stories where the small print always conveniently seemed to involve the entrepreneur being able to acquire £$10,000 from savings, family etc and admittedly, I let that give me pause, but I find this book a huge boost to my potential business self esteem. I really feel like it gives so many good examples of the building blocks of people's real world successes that I truly feel I can do the same now. It's a fixture in my handbag and I highly recommend it!!

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Andreas Sanidiotis

Become your own boss!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 21 September 2019

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I like the way this book fuels you with the right mindset and shares stories on how you can become your own boss.
This is one of the books that will definitely need to have your hands on, even if you read it, either to remind you of many things or as reference on your way to becoming your own boss.

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harjinder

A Brilliant Read!!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 21 August 2017

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Brought Chris's book way back in 2012!! Apologise for the late review --- but couldn't resist writing one -- now!!

This is my first ever type of "StartUp" book -- read!! And I thoroughly enjoyed it!!
I personally found Chris Guillebeau's -- "The $100 Startup" a very thrilling and inspirational read!! And I would highly recommend this book to ALL who are looking for deep inspiration -- or even to awaken their passion to start-up a business they would love!!

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MR GP LYON

Loved it

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 9 March 2014

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I've been reading personal development books for years and always dreaming of escaping the rat race and having more freedom. This was a great book and really inspired me to take action. I'm meeting a web developer tomorrow to discuss my first idea and if for any reason this idea did not work out, I know now that I will simply move onto idea number 2. If you don't invest tons of money in an idea, if girl any reason it does not work out, you will learn from something from it. I have previously wasted £20k on one business and £3k on another business - I so wish I'd read this book 10 years ago.

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Nicolas

Inspiring and motivational - just what you need

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 2 February 2013

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I bought this book last Christmas in order for me to get inspired by some of the stories in this book. I was amazed as to how well written and engaging those stories were. I really loved this book because at some point in your life a decision must be made and one of them is knowing whether you have the 'balls' to jump into the entrepreneur world. I've been thinking about business ideas for a long time now (I'm 27 y/o) but never really gone for one of them. I work in digital as a full-time job and I can see on a daily basis how people just come up with businesses online and (in most cases) make a living out of it.

This book really helped me go for it. It just makes you realize how simple an online business can be. It's the perfect platform to discover whether your idea will triumph or not in no time (and no cost). I believe there are many people in my situation, wanting to go solo but not having the time or motivation because of your full-time jobs. This book comes in handy because it aso demonstrates that you can start small, very small and just keep meeting people at events, go to online meetups, co-working and networking spaces.

I strongly recommend this book to anyone who desires to change his daily life at least a little bit for the better.

PS: I decided to buy this same book to my father because even though hes been there and done it, a little reminder of how the business world really starts of it's no harm to anyone. Moreover, he absolutely loved it!

Thanks,
Chris Guillebeau

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Barbara

Inspired me to create a £77.60 start up!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 8 February 2020

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I bought this on the kindle store, and I have finished the book definitely inspired. The real life examples used definitely help you to think outside the box when starting a business and use some old fashioned values and apply them today. I would recommend for anyone looking for some inspiration to kick start their business.

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Phil Wu

Very optimistic

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 27 March 2020

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I found the content a litttle too optimistic and if conveyed to large audience, can be misleading

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