具体描述
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.
用户评价
##Are they happy ？Are you happy ？Are you profitable? Isn’t that enough?
评分##Stoic and narcissistic, a bad manager but a great entrepreneur. Stick to your value that could drive you far.
评分##Actually, it's a new kind of entrepreneur. This book inspired me to keep on running my small business, but it depends on whether I have already saw the big picture or not. Keep the EXTREME customer centricity in mind!
评分##40堂创业课。作者Dereck用自己的故事告诉我们他关于创业的理解，读完深深感动。创业是为了帮助他人、做自己喜欢的事、用自己喜欢的方式——可以做任何你觉得有意义的事情，有钱不一定比没钱好，大公司不一定比小公司好，有82个雇员不一定比2个雇员好，只要你做能让你开心的事。“you make your perfect world”,that’s the most important thing.
评分##起因是作者在《巨人的工具》中的访谈让人眼前一亮。不过可能是这几年我接触的类似思想比较多，觉得作者这本书讲的普普通通。
评分##小而美的small business
评分##Stoic and narcissistic, a bad manager but a great entrepreneur. Stick to your value that could drive you far.
评分##One of the best reads this year. Great points of views - love the stories and his current website. Worth reading multiple times. Will send him an email and let’s see if he’s gonna reply or not. (I imagined him to be this curly hair rocky star but it turns out that he’s bald)
评分##Create anything you want and the creation would have its own life.
