The $100 Startup: Fire Your Boss, Do What You Love and Work Better To Live More

easy to understand content , rich of information and joyful when reading

Nice info to get you thinking

The book is divided into 16 chapters which are always structured in the same way. Introduction, examples and explanation on the topic of the chapter, partly with "exercises". The chapters are concluded with the Key Points, a kind of summary. Easy to read and always interesting because of the many examples. Who thinks about creating an additional income for himself certainly a help. It is almost always the idea and the perseverance with which one stays on it that brings success. Chris Guillebeau has given himself a task, namely to travel all countries until he is thirty. On the way there, he learned how to get by without a steady job. It's not about getting rich, it's about shaping his life. For his second book he interviewed many people who run a microbusiness and finance their lives with it. From the many interviews and his own experiences he has made a book which describes what you can do to be/become independent. It is a guide how to create an income with work that you determine yourself. It will still be work, but the basic idea is to say, think about how you want to live your life and then rebuild your work so that it could be done. If it does not work, try something else. Through the many examples show that it is normal people who have normal ideas to create their life and income. I am a University of Twente Honors student enrolled in the Entrepreneurship and Business Development track and this was my recommended reading

-The author comes up with a simple formula that passion+usefulness=success and has described case studies of people who started with less and became successful. The profile of such people are carefully chosen and many are on their way to earn income from their side Gig that will make them quit their original job. -Some of those successful people described include excel guru (BFF for excel); travel agent (side GIG); Evernote tutorial book author; accidental photographer etc. All these profile became successful in earning a good income. They didn’t use high capital as one might think to start their GIG. -The importance of “solopreneur” is discussed. These start-ups don’t require team or the work can be outsourced instead of hiring full time employes. -Bonus for this book: The author in the appendix of the book makes in tabular form 25 case studies which he described. Name-Business-Description-Promise

Un buen libro, con muchas historias de exitos algunos muy simples pero que nos ayudan a entender que nuestra fuerza es muy importante en la hora de buscar ser patron de si mismo. No debemos olvidar que la cultura americana no tiene nada a veer con la europeana, son temas muy distintos y que no debemos suponer que lo que hacen como se lee en este libro alguna vez se puede praticar en la europa, en particular europa del sur. Pero sale de lectura facil y muy optimista.

Es un buen libro, te muestra como hacer un negocio desde la perspectiva de tu hobbie. Señala que hay cosas que disfrutas hacer y que estas mismas pueden tener un valor en el mercado. Para todo aquel que busca empezar un negocio, este libro te permite empezar a pensar desde otra prespectiva.

The $100 Startup is the latest offering from the amazing Chris Guillebeau, who runs a fun blog at The Art of Non-conformity, where he writes great manifestos, updates readers on his mission to visit every single country by the time he turns 35 (he has about 10 months to visit the last 10 countries on his list), and sells some nifty e-books to aspiring travel hackers and creative entrepreneurs. This book is Guillebeau's second and is a bit more polished than his first, while being equally charming. As expected from the title, the $100 Startup focuses on people who built profitable business with small amounts of startup capital, and now earn at least $50,000 a year. Guillebeau definitely did his research for this one, with detailed anecdotes from successful entrepreneurs were woven seamlessly into key points he was trying to make. If you have a vague idea and are looking to quit your job and start anew, but really have no idea where to start or what to consider, the book provides a very good primer. You'll have all sorts of checklists and guidelines to consider (some of which are available for free on 100startup.com), and all sorts of information you likely hadn't even considered. The book is a quick and fun read, and covers an incredibly wide range of topics, ranging from location independence to health insurance, from an info product launch to making decisions about everything from outsourcing to choosing between ideas for projects. The only place where I felt the $100 Startup fell short is that it was so heavy on success stories by successful small businesses where almost identical ideas by equally eager and skilled individuals have fallen flat. Although Guillebeau touches on areas that could lead to less-than-stellar results, and even focused on specific missteps of the successful entrepreneurs he profiled, this may not be the best book for people who make a passable living from their business but want to get to that $50,000+/year level. On the plus side, Chris Guillebeau's integrity and generosity really shines through in the book. The $100 Startup is a breath of fresh air if you're used to reading ones fixated on marketing gimicks; he asks the reader to focus on how you can actually improve people's lives-not how you can convince them that you are. It is always refreshing to get business advice from someone who actually wants to help people.