Anything You Want

 Name of the Book: - Anything You Want – 40 lessons for a new kind of entrepreneur

Author: - Derek Sivers

No of Chapters: - 40

Number of Pages: - 88

Single sentence description of Book: - Short simple and straight book for entrepreneurs

Who is Derek Sivers :-  He is multi-talented personality a writer, a musician,  a programmer and entrepreneur. He is best known for CD Baby, an online CD store for independent musicians started in year 1997, which he sold in 2008 when the company was having sales of over $100M in sales for over 150,000 musician clients.

What this book is about: - Book is compilation of 40 lessons that Derek Sivers learnt during his journey as entrepreneur. He covered the fact why passion is more important than money in any business. Why there is advantage of having no funds in any start up and why it is essential to keep the things small and simple. He emphasizes the importance of careful delegation of responsibilities when the business is growing. He also puts focus on reading the fine print of any legal documents by explaining that he lost $3.3 million by not reading the fine print. He explains the importance of having good numbers of small customers rather than having few big customers as they cannot force you to change vision of your company. He explained the fact the doing work in one way is just of one of the multiple options of doing it.

  Few Special thoughts by the Author: -

1.       Business is not about money. It is more about making dreams come true for others and for yourself.

2.      What is success? If any amount of money and fame does not bring peace, then it’s nor success.

3.      Success comes from consistently improving and invention the existing system, rather than keep on working what’s not working.

4.       It is more important to focus on thing that is more important to you, instead of doing what others think you should.

5.   Doing small things or gestures of help can go long way in creation of your personality.

6.  If you are business owner and still doing all things yourself, then think about delegation of responsibilities with caution.

7.   Brilliant idea with Brilliant execution can be worth of millions rather than Brilliant idea with poor execution or Brilliant execution with awful execution

 

Overall Review: - Book is a brilliant collection of thoughts of Derek Sivers about entrepreneurship. Book is bit costly as compared to the content. Someone may or may not agree with some of thoughts expressed in the book. But overall, it is good read and provided some valuable insights about entrepreneur ship.

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