Book : Anything You Want 40 Lessons For A New Kind Of...

-Titulo Original : Anything You Want 40 Lessons For A New Kind Of Entrepreneur

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You can follow the beaten path and call yourself an entrepreneur or you can blaze your own trail and really be one. When Derek Sivers started CD Baby, he wasn’t planning on building a major business. He was a successful independent musician who just wanted to sell his CDs online. When no one would help him do it, he set out on his own and built an online store from scratch. He started in 1998 by helping his friends sell their CDs. In 2000, he hired his first employee. Eight years later, he sold CD Baby for $22 million. Sivers didn’t need a business plan, and neither do you. You don’t need to think big; in fact, it’s better if you don’t. Start with what you have, care about your customers more than yourself, and run your business like you don’t need the money. Review If you want a true manifesto, a guidebook with clear signposts, and a fun ride youll return to again and again, you have it here in this book. I hope you enjoy it as much as I did. -TIM FERRISS, author of The 4-Hour Workweek [I] burned through the book in about an hour. Wow. Really. Derek shares some of the principles (and anti-principles) he learned and applied during his time as an accidental entrepreneur and how to grow a business without losing your soul. -TODD HENRY, author of Die Empty One of the best hours you’ll ever spend will be reading Derek Sivers’s new book…Anything You Want. -Forbes About the Author In 2008, Derek sold CD Baby to focus on new ventures to help musicians. Since then he’s been sharing everything he’s learned as an in-demand writer and speaker at conferences, including four TED talks. Join the Anything You Want conversation and learn more about Derek’s current projects at sivers.org/a Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved. Title PageCopyrightDedicationTen years of experience in one hourWhat’s your compass?Just selling my CDMake a dream come trueA business model with only two numbersThis ain’t no revolutionIf it’s not a hit, switchNo “yes.” Either “Hell yeah!” or “no.”Just like that, my plan completely changedThe advantage of no fundingStart now. No funding needed.Ideas are just a multiplier of executionFormalities play on fear. Bravely refuse.The strength of many little customersProudly exclude peopleWhy no advertising?This is just one of many optionsYou don’t need a plan or a vision“I miss the mob.”How do you grade yourself?Care about your customers more than about yourselfAct like you don’t need the moneyDon’t punish everyone for one person’s mistakeA real person, a lot like youYou should feel pain when you’re unclearThe most successful e-mail I ever wroteLittle things make all the differenceIt’s OK to be casualNaive quittingPrepare to doubleIt’s about being, not havingThe day Steve Jobs dissed me in a keynoteMy $3.3 million mistakeDelegate or die: The self-employment trapMake it anything you wantTrust, but verifyDelegate, but don’t abdicateHow I knew I was doneWhy I gave my company to charityYou make your perfect worldContact me anytimeAcknowledgmentsDedicated entirely to Seth Godin. This book only exists because of his encouragement.Visit ://bit.ly/1Vs8MCB for a larger version of this graph.Ten years of experience in one hourFrom 1998 to 2008, I had this wild experience of starting a little hobby, accidentally growing it into a big business, and then selling it for $22 million. So now people want to hear my thoughts.People ask me about that experience, so I tell stories about how it went for me. Many of them are about all the things I did wrong. I made some horrible mistakes.People ask my advice on how to approach situations in their lives or businesses, so I explain how I approach things. But my approach is just one way, and I could argue against it as well.I’m not really suggesting that anyone should be like me. I’m pretty unusual, so what works for me might not work for others. But enough people thought that my stories and the philosophies I develo