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The $100 Startup: Fire Your Boss, Do What You Love and Work Better to Live More Kindle 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
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- ASIN : B007ZXQNGA
- Publisher : Macmillan; Main Market edition (1 June 2012)
- Language : English
- File size : 1606 KB
- Text-to-Speech : Enabled
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- Word Wise : Enabled
- Print length : 286 pages
- Best Sellers Rank: 56,134 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
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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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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.



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!!!
