The $100 Startup: Reinvent the Way You Make a Living, Do What You Love, and Create a New Future
by Chris Guillebeau · 7 May 2012 · 248pp · 72,174 words
registered trademarks of Random House, Inc. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Guillebeau, Chris. The $100 startup : reinvent the way you make a living, do what you love, and create a new future / by Chris Guillebeau. p. cm. 1. New business enterprises—Management. 2. Entrepreneurship. I. Title. II. Title: One hundred dollar startup
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to look. 2. Give Them the Fish How to put happiness in a box and sell it. 3. Follow Your Passion … Maybe Get paid to do what you love by making sure it connects to what other people want. 4. The Rise of the Roaming Entrepreneur “Location, location, location” is overrated. 5. The New
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the back of the book for twenty-five more examples of how to reframe a descriptive concept as a benefit-driven story. GET PAID TO DO WHAT YOU LOVE BY MAKING SURE IT CONNECTS TO WHAT OTHER PEOPLE WANT. “Passion, though a bad regulator, is a powerful spring.” —RALPH WALDO EMERSON Like many of
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you become a starving artist, and I’m not a starving artist.” Compared with working just to make a living, it’s much easier to do what you love and get paid for it. You just have to find the right passion, the right audience, and the right business model. KEY POINTS As in
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at all any more, it would be what we actually choose to do with our free time. Then we could all obey the injunction to “do what you love”—not as a disingenuous apology for accepting exploitation, but as a real description of the state of existence. This is Marx as stoner philosopher: just
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material. Some simply preface the rules with a fluffy reminder of the platform’s value: “At Pinterest, our mission is to help you discover and do what you love. To make sure everyone has a great experience, we have a few guidelines and rules.” Others litter their guidelines with exclamation marks like an eager
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by Joel Kotkin · 31 Aug 2014 · 362pp · 83,464 words
living at it. Yet for many this has turned out to be a fairy tale, a life that can be afforded only by the rich. “‘Do what you love’ disguises the fact that being able to choose a career primarily for personal reward is a privilege, a sign of socioeconomic class,” notes one observer
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-from-labor-markets/32997. 27. Miya Tokumitsu, “In the Name of Love,” Slate, January 16, 2014, http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/technology/2014/01/do_what_you_love_love_what_you_do_an_omnipresent_mantra_that_s_bad_for_work.html. 28. Samantha Stainburn, “Following the Money: Calculating the Net Worth of a
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services for a flat rate of $5 (workers now can set different rates). You could use Fiverr, the startup’s founder explained, to make money doing what you love in your spare time. Like 75% of people surveyed in a Fiverr-sponsored poll, the deal sounded pretty good to me.27 But that was
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. 19. Arlie Russell Hochschild, The Managed Heart: Commercialization of Human Feeling (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1983). 20. Brooke Erin Duffy, (Not) Getting Paid to Do What You Love: Gender, Social Media, and Aspirational Work (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2017). 21. The solidarity was bicoastal. The California resort unions won a $15
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by Cal Newport · 5 Jan 2016
life become more pleasant—even though the circumstances in both scenarios are the same. As Gallagher summarizes: “Who you are, what you think, feel, and do, what you love—is the sum of what you focus on.” In Rapt, Gallagher surveys the research supporting this understanding of the mind. She cites, for example, the
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yoga instructor working in Shreveport, Louisiana, had the same sense of frustration: “I grew up understanding the American Dream as: you get your education and do what you love, and you can make a living out of it. I just don’t think it’s realistic.” My colleagues and I met Sarah and Amy
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by Ben Carlson · 14 May 2015 · 232pp · 70,835 words
degree of difficulty. The goal is to gain financial independence, pay for your child's college education, go on more vacations, have more time to do what you love, or whatever your needs and desires may be. Remember, the markets are not just about building wealth and making money. They're a tool for
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by Nicole Aschoff · 10 Mar 2015 · 128pp · 38,187 words
to networks) and cultural capital (skills and education) so we can find a job we love and hopefully keep a roof over our heads. The “do what you love” message is at the heart of the work-identity fusion. It advises you to follow your passion. If you’re unhappy, it’s because you
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. In October 2014, NBC Universal settled a class-action lawsuit brought by a group of its interns for $4.6 million. Following your passion and doing what you love may also require you to forgo job stability and long-term employment on the always changing, always moving road to self-actualization. But job stability
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