The $100 Startup: Reinvent the Way You Make a Living, Do What You Love, and Create a New Future

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Lead a life of adventure, meaning and purpose—and earn a good living.
 
“Thoughtful, funny, and compulsively readable, this guide shows how ordinary people can build solid livings, with independence and purpose, on their own terms.”—Gretchen Rubin, author of the #1 New York Times bestseller The Happiness Project
 
Still in his early thirties, Chris Guillebeau completed a tour of every country on earth and yet he’s never held a “real job” or earned a regular paycheck. Rather, he has a special genius for turning ideas into income, and he uses what he earns both to support his life of adventure and to give back. 
 
Chris identified 1,500 individuals who have built businesses earning $50,000 or more from a modest investment (in many cases, $100 or less), and focused on the 50 most intriguing case studies. In nearly all cases, people with no special skills discovered aspects 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 learned how to turn what they do into a gateway to self-fulfillment. It’s all about finding the intersection between your “expertise”—even if you don’t consider it such—and what other people will pay for.  You don’t need an MBA, a business plan or even employees. All you need is a product or service that springs from what you love to do anyway, people willing to pay, and a way to get paid.
 
Not content to talk in generalities, Chris tells you exactly how many dollars his group of unexpected entrepreneurs required to get their projects up and running; what these individuals did in the first weeks and months to generate significant cash; some of the key mistakes they made along the way, and the crucial insights that made the business stick. Among Chris’s key principles: If you’re good at one thing, you’re probably good at something else; never teach a man to fish—sell him the fish instead; and in the battle between planning and action, action wins.
 
In ancient times, people who were dissatisfied with their lives dreamed of finding magic lamps, buried treasure, or streets paved with gold. Today, we know that it’s up to us to change our lives. And the best part is, if we change our own life, we can help others change theirs. This remarkable book will start you on your way.

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4.4
283 reviews
Nduka Wosu
March 24, 2014
When I first saw the title of the book, I said to myself how does an individual start a successful business with $100? I was instantly intrigued by the title; I wanted to understand why the Author gave his book that title. As I started to read the book, I realized that it was written for entrepreneurs (not businessmen or women) who dared to find ways that were out of traditional employment and create the time and income to pursue what they find meaningful. In the book, the author Chris focuses on 50 entrepreneurs who have built businesses earning $50,000 or more from investments that mostly started from $100 or less. One common characteristic I found among the entrepreneurs is that they often did not have any special skill but they discovered opportunities from their passion which they could focus on and turn those opportunities into wealth. The book is very easy to understand because Chris uses graphs, illustrations, references, and guides in each chapter in order to help aid the reader understand his key points. One key aspect of the book is that it avoids the use of one model of success for every entrepreneur by emphasizing the success and failures for each entrepreneur.
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Jansen Hermawan
January 29, 2018
great book! it's practical, and it show many, many, many example people who success, and it show the process how they success. i think this book is great for people who stuck with their job, living from salary month to month, and want to get out of the "system". great book, highly recommend !!
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Paul G
January 18, 2013
This book provided lots of great examples of people who made the leap from ordinary employee to self-employed. It was definitely valuable to learn that all entrepreneurs have some doubt when starting a business, but strong work ethic and creative thinking can curb most doubts. Great read!
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About the author

CHRIS GUILLEBEAU is the author of the New York Times bestsellers The $100 Startup and The Happiness of Pursuit, and the Wall Street Journal bestseller Born for This. He is creator and host of the annual World Domination Summit, a gathering of cultural creatives that attracts such speakers as Susan Cain, Brené Brown, and Gretchen Rubin. Guillebeau speaks at dozens of events, companies, and universities, including Google, Facebook, SXSW, Evernote, LeWeb, and more. He recently completed a personal quest to visit every country in the world (193/193).

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