The $100 Startup: Reinvent the Way You Make a Living, Do What You Love, and Create a New Future Audiobook (Free)
- Thomas Vincent Kelly, Chris Guillebeau
- 8 h 15 min
- Random House (Audio)
- 2012-05-08
Summary:
In The $100 Startup, Chris Guillebeau demonstrates how to lead of life of adventure, meaning and purpose – and earn a good living.
Still in his early thirties, Chris is certainly in the verge of completing a tour of every country on earth – he’s already visited more than 175 countries – yet he’s under no circumstances kept a “actual job” or earned a regular salary. Rather, he has a unique genius for turning ideas into income, and he uses what he earns both to support his lifestyle of adventure and to give back..READING MORE approximately The $100 Startup: Reinvent how you Make a Living, Do EVERYTHING YOU Like, and Create a New Future
There are numerous others like Chris – those who’ve discovered methods to opt out of traditional employment and create the time and income to pursue what they find meaningful. Sometimes, achieving that perfect mixture of passion and income doesn’t rely on shelving what you currently do. You could start small with your endeavor, committing short amount of time or money, and wait to take the real plunge if you are sure it’s effective.
In getting ready to write this reserve, Chris identified 1,500 individuals who have built businesses earning $50,000 or even more from a humble investment (in many cases, $100 or much less), and from that group he’s chosen to spotlight the 50 most intriguing case studies. In nearly all cases, people who have no special abilities discovered areas of their personal passions that could be monetized, and were able to restructure their lives in ways that gave them greater freedom and fulfillment.
Here, finally, distilled into one easy-to-use guide, are the most valuable lessons from those who’ve discovered how to turn what they do right into a gateway to self-fulfillment. It’s all about finding the intersection between your “knowledge” – even if you don’t contemplate it such — and what other people will pay for. You don’t want an MBA, a business plan and even employees. All you need is something or provider that springs from everything you love to do anyway, people willing to pay out, and a way to get paid.
Not content material to talk in generalities, Chris lets you know how many dollars his group of unexpected entrepreneurs required to get their projects ready to go; what these individuals did in the first weeks and weeks to create significant cash; a number of the key mistakes they made along the way, and the crucial insights that produced the business stick. Among Chris’s key concepts: if you’re proficient at a very important factor, you’re probably good at something else; never teach a guy to fish – sell him the fish rather; and in the fight between setting up and action, action wins.
In ancient moments, people who were dissatisfied with their lives imagined finding magic lamps, buried treasure, or roads paved with yellow metal. Today, we know that it’s up to us to change our lives. And the best part can be, if we modify our own existence, we can help others alter theirs. This remarkable book begins you on the way.
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