Anything You Want: 40 Lessons for a New Kind of Entrepreneur

Author: Sivers, Derek

Color: White

Number Of Pages: 96

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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.

Reviews:

"If you want a true manifesto, a guidebook with clear signposts, and a fun ride you'll 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 Page Copyright Dedication Ten years of experience in one hour What’s your compass? Just selling my CD Make a dream come true A business model with only two numbers This ain’t no revolution If it’s not a hit, switch No “yes.” Either “Hell yeah!” or “no.” Just like that, my plan completely changed The advantage of no funding Start now. No funding needed. Ideas are just a multiplier of execution Formalities play on fear. Bravely refuse. The strength of many little customers Proudly exclude people Why no advertising? This is just one of many options You don’t need a plan or a vision “I miss the mob.” How do you grade yourself? Care about your customers more than about yourself Act like you don’t need the money Don’t punish everyone for one person’s mistake A real person, a lot like you You should feel pain when you’re unclear The most successful e-mail I ever wrote Little things make all the difference It’s OK to be casual Naive quitting Prepare to double It’s about being, not having The day Steve Jobs dissed me in a keynote My $3.3 million mistake Delegate or die: The self-employment trap Make it anything you want Trust, but verify Delegate, but don’t abdicate How I knew I was done Why I gave my company to charity You make your perfect world Contact me anytime Acknowledgments Dedicated entirely to Seth Godin. This book only exists because of his encouragement. Visit http://bit.ly/1Vs8MCB for a larger version of this graph. Ten years of experience in one hour From 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

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EAN: 9781591848264

Release Date: 15-09-2015

Languages: English

Item Note: Great shape- pages are unmarked and sharp.Has a remainder mark. Hardcover Used - Like New Ships fast! 2015

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Binding: Hardcover