No More Excuses – How to Make an Extra $100,000 in the Next 6 Months. The Wilburns have created a multinational from their home.
Tim Ferris’ Recommend Reading « Rachel Denning. 20 Apr Posted April 20, 2008 by racheldenning in To Read.
Tim Ferriss and Kevin Rose Discuss Their Top 5 Must-Read Books. Six-Figure Businesses Built for Less Than $100: 17 Lessons Learned. Photo: 401K.
The following article is a guest post by Chris Guillibeau, who’s traveled to 150+ countries and studied more micro-businesses than anyone I know. I hope you love this piece as much as I did. Enjoy! Enter Chris. 8 Steps to Getting What You Want… Without Formal Credentials. (Photo: ElMarto) Michael Ellsberg has been a good friend since 2000.
In the last few years, he has made a study of self-study. How do the best in business do what they do? How to Create a Million-Dollar Business This Weekend (Examples: AppSumo, Mint, Chihuahuas) Noah Kagan built two multi-million dollar online businesses before turning 28.
He also looks great in orange. Built to Sell — Making Your Company Sellable. Waterfall in Aix-en-Provence, France.
(Photo: Mat3270) “Didn’t you write that you believed BrainQUICKEN couldn’t be sold?” The question — a common one — was from writer John Warrillow and for an article in Inc. Magazine. The embarrassing answer was “yes.” Feeling Stuck? Read This… Parc del Laberint d’Horta, Barcelona (Photo: Marcel Germain) Big successes often seem like foregone conclusions.
In reality, most entrepreneurs (read: creators) who appear to have unique genius suffer through the same frustration as the masses of unknowns. They simply test and persist a few steps further. Richard Branson will tell you this of his Virgin empire.Tony Hsieh of Zappo’s shares similar stories.Steve Martin can prove that it applies to anything creative, not just business.
Below is a piece of paper from 2005 I recently unearthed while purging books and folders from my house. It reflects a complete failure–protracted over weeks–to find a good title for what later became The 4-Hour Workweek (4HWW). Here are two pages of frustrated attempts, two pages of dozens (click to enlarge, then click again)… Let me know which title is your favorite ridiculous option. The Way of the Dodo — How to Sell 10,000 iPad Cases at $60 Each (and Other Lessons Learned) DODOcase, one of more than 1,000 businesses created in the last six months, has sold more than 10,000 units at $60 each.
From today’s New York Times coverage of the Shopify/4-Hour Workweek build-a-business competition that just ended: To encourage early, positive buzz among Apple iPad buyers, Mr. Dalton [of DODOcase] hired street teams via Craigslist to “hang out with Apple fanboys, while they waited on line for hours, maybe even days, outside of Apple retail stores for a chance to buy the first edition iPad.” The street teams, he said, hit Apple store locations in Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, New York and San Francisco.DODOcase also scored favorable reviews with the tech blogs Engadget and The Unofficial Apple Weblog. Some endorsements came unsolicited from high profile customers; on July 14, Evan Williams, chief executive of Twitter, posted a DODOcase endorsement on his Twitter feed: “Got my Dodocase. DODOcase iPad cases cost around $60, so you can do the math. Here are their answers.
How to Create Your Own Real-World MBA – II. Brainstorming in Boulder, CO with a class of founders from TechStars, where I’ve been a mentor.
After this particular trip, I ended up advising Graphic.ly. (Photo: Andrew Hyde) Disclaimer: nothing on this site is legal advice, and I am not an investing expert. This post is continued from Part I. How to Create Your Own Real-World MBA. Do You Really Know Bill Gates? The Myth of Entrepreneur as Risk-Taker. Photo: Laughing Squid/Scott Beale Before I had to establish my no-blurb/no-review policy for books due to volume (picture: one day’s mail), I received an e-mail from Rick Smith, the founding CEO of the World 50, one of the most exclusive senior executive networking companies on the planet, with members and contributors like Bono, Francis Ford Coppola, and Phil Knight… He was interested in having me look at his new book Leap, and I suggested he send it along with the understanding that I might not have the time to read it.
To tell the truth, it took me a looong time to bother flipping it open, as the subtitle “How 3 Simple Changes Can Propel Your Career from Good to Great” is–in my opinion–devoid of sex appeal and misleading. It should be subtitled “How to Propel Your Life from Good to Great.” “Career” is not the right word at all. I finished the book in two sittings. Here is an excerpt from Leap that shows just how far off most perceptions of entrepreneurs are. This was a lie.