Anything You Want
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- Synopsis
- 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.From the Hardcover edition. 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.
- Copyright:
- 2011
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Publisher Quality
- ISBN-13:
- 9780698409026
- Related ISBNs:
- 9781591848264
- Publisher:
- Penguin Publishing Group
- Date of Addition:
- 02/04/16
- Copyrighted By:
- Derek Sivers
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- Nonfiction, Self-Help, Business and Finance
- Submitted By:
- N/A
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.