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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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Thoughtful, funny and compulsively readable, this guide shows how ordinary people can build solid livings, with independence and purpose, on their own terms -- Gretchen Rubin, New York Times bestselling author of The Happiness Project The money you have is enough. Chris makes it crystal clear: there are no excuses left. START. Start now, not later. Hurry -- Seth Godin, New York Times bestselling author --This text refers to the paperback 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.

About the Author

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 the paperback edition.

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You can change your job to change your life
You no longer need to work nine-to-five for a big company to pay the mortgage, send your kids to school and afford that yearly holiday. You can quit the rat race and start up on your own - and you don't need an MBA or a huge investment to do it.
The $100 Startup is your manual to a new way of living. Learn how to:
· Earn a good living on your own terms and when and where you want
· Achieve that perfect blend of passion and income to make work something you love
· Apply crucial insights from fifty ordinary people who made it work with $100 or less
'Thoughtful, funny and compulsively readable, this guide shows how ordinary people can build solid livings with independence and purpose, on their own terms' Gretchen Rubin, New York Times bestselling author of The Happiness Project

--This text refers to an alternate kindle_edition edition.

ASIN : B007ZXQNGA
Publisher : Macmillan; Main Market edition (1 June 2012)
Language : English
File size : 1606 KB
Text-to-Speech : Enabled
Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
X-Ray : Enabled
Word Wise : Enabled
Print length : 286 pages

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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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Don’t look back in anger

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 16 July 2020

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Someone recommended this book to me. In honesty I haven’t read it yet. I started and got distracted. I’m always imagining having my own business but don’t know what to start! It’ll probably be something I read in ten years times and it’ll change my life and I’ll wish I’d read it now.....bit like all the things I should of done on furlough! Man, imagining realising that you’re not reaching your full potential while writing an amazon review! Bad times!

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