The $100 Startup: Reinvent the Way You Make a Living, Do What You Love, and Create a New Future
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What You’ll Learn
- Turn Your Skills into an Offer
- Start with a Small Budget
- Find Your First Customers
Your first business can begin with a useful skill and a clear customer need. Through small-business case studies, Chris Guillebeau explores how people turn their experience and interests into offers others will pay for. This is an encouraging starting point for founders considering a modest, practical launch: use the examples to think through your offer, audience, and first sale while planning a budget that fits your own circumstances.
- Author: Chris Guillebeau
- Publisher: Crown Currency
- Format: Hardcover
- Publication date: May 8, 2012
- ISBN-13: 9780307951526
- ISBN-10: 0307951529
- Pages: 304
- Book weight: 0.94 lb