Anything You Want: 40 Lessons for a New Kind of Entrepreneur
Derek Sivers
Finally available in bookstores, the Portfolio edition of Derek Sivers’s iconic and bestselling manifesto on lessons learned while becoming an entrepreneurMost people don’t know what they’re doing. They imitate others, go with the flow, and follow paths without making their own.Best known for creating CD Baby, the most popular music site for independent artists, founder Derek Sivers chronicles his “accidental” success and failures into this concise and inspiring book on how to create a multimillion-dollar company by following your passion.Sivers details his journey and the lessons learned along the way of creating CD Baby and building a business close to his heart. In 1997 Sivers was a musician who taught himself to code a Buy Now button onto his band’s Web site. Shortly thereafter he began selling his friends’ CDs on his Web site. As CD Baby grew, Sivers faced numerous obstacles on his way to success. Within six years he had been publicly criticized by Steve Jobs and had to pay his father $3.3 million to buy back 90 percent of his company, but he had also built a company of more than 50 employees and had profited $10 million.Anything You Want is must reading for every person who is an entrepreneur, wants to be one, wants to understand one, or cares even a little about what it means to be human.
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loved this. such a quick read but so many good take aways. appreciated all the practical advice and the simple view of running a business. feeling inspired.
(the one idea i can't shake is not trying to create something big right away - 1) you first of all need to enjoy it and what you are doing 'in the end it's what you want to be, not what you want to have. to have something (a finished recording, a business, or millions of dollars) is the means, not the end. to be something (a good singer, a skilled entrepreneur, or just plain happy) is the real point.' 2) start by making something that people you know will need and use and make it for them 3) 'don't be on your deathbed someday, having squandered you one chance at life, full of regret because you pursued little distractions instead of big dreams. you need to know your personal philosophy of what makes you happy and what's worth doing.' 4) 'when you make a business, you get to make a little universe where you control all the laws. this is your utopia. when you make it a dream come true for yourself, it'll be a dream come true for someone else, too.'
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