The $100 Startup by Chris Guillebeau

Lead a life of adventure, meaning, and purpose—and earn an amazing living. “Thoughtful, funny, and compulsively readable, this manual suggests how regular human beings can construct stable livings, with independence and purpose, on their very own terms.”

—Gretchen Rubin, writer of the number 1 New York Times bestseller The Happiness Project Still in his early thirties, Chris Guillebeau finished a tour of every country in the world and yet he’s in no way held an “actual job” or earned a normal paycheck. Rather, he has a unique genius for turning thoughts into income, and he makes use of what he earns each to help his life of adventure and to offer back.

Chris diagnosed 1,500 people who’ve constructed companies earning $50,000 or greater from a modest investment (in lots of cases, $100 or less), and targeted the 50 maximum interesting case studies.

In almost all cases, human beings without unique talents found aspects in their personal passions that would be monetized, and have been capable of restructuring their lives in methods that gave them more freedom and fulfillment.

Here, finally, distilled into one easy-to-use manual, are the maximum precious classes from the ones who’ve discovered how to show what they do right into a gateway to self-fulfillment. It’s all about finding the intersection between your “expertise”—even in case you don’t consider it such—and what different human beings pay for.

You don’t want an MBA, a marketing strategy, or maybe employees. All you want is products or services that spring from what you like to do anyway, human beings inclined to pay, and a manner to get paid.

Not content to speak in generalities, Chris tells you precisely what the number of dollars his organization of surprising entrepreneurs required to get their tasks up and running; what those people did withinside the first weeks and months to generate massive cash; a number of the important thing errors they made alongside the manner, and the essential insights that made the business stick.

Among Chris’s key principles: If you’re proper at one thing, you’re probable proper at something else; never educate a person to fish—sell him the fish instead; and withinside the war among making plans and action, action wins.

In historic times, those who have been upset with their lives dreamed of finding magic lamps, buried treasure, or streets paved with gold.

Today, we realize that it’s as much as us to change our lives. And the great part is, if we change our personal existence, we are able to assist others to change theirs. This terrific book will begin you on your way.