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Never Get a “Real” Job: How to Dump Your Boss, Build a Business and Not Go Broke
by
Scott Gerber
Young serial entrepreneur Scott Gerber is not the product of a wealthy family or storied entrepreneurial heritage. Nor is he the outcome of a traditional business school education or a corporate executive turned entrepreneur. Rather, he is a hard-working, self-taught 26-year-old hustler, rainmaker, and bootstrapper who has survived and thrived despite never having held the...more
Hardcover, 250 pages
Published
December 7th 2010
by John Wiley & Sons
(first published November 2nd 2010)
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I'm really glad I didn't pay any money for this. The book starts out promising enough, with some nice snarkiness about the curse and affliction of "real jobs." That part's fun. When the author gets to the actual advice about starting up a business, the book turns stale and uninteresting. Why? Because the advice is so pedestrian. For example, when attempting to make a difficult decision, the author advises making a list of pros and cons. Who knew? Also, when you're looking to partner with someone...more
Jun 26, 2012
Joél Steinmann
rated it
5 of 5 stars
Recommends it for:
Entrepreneurs, People who like to be their own boss,
Recommended to Joél by:
Tim Kraemer
this book really inspired me to take immediate action. not only to start a business it seems highly applicable also to improve your current job, remove bad habits and find ways to get successful after all. Scott Gerber shows easy ways to really start a business. He questions very hard the use of business plans that are gone from worst to best case scenarios. Since you will never be right anyway with your guesses, who needs business plans anyway. In exchange he shows you what helps you to start a...more
Without a doubt, written by a hardened New Yorker!
Pretty decent, honest, no-BS, real book about entrepreneurship. It goes in the opposite direction of most books and takes a realistic--bordering on pessimistic--view of life as a start-up founder, which is absolutely fantastic. By shattering illusions and delusions, better decisions can be made.
My only qualm with this book is it seems to take the middle view: don't aspire to big things, aspire to something between greatness and shittiness, while...more
Pretty decent, honest, no-BS, real book about entrepreneurship. It goes in the opposite direction of most books and takes a realistic--bordering on pessimistic--view of life as a start-up founder, which is absolutely fantastic. By shattering illusions and delusions, better decisions can be made.
My only qualm with this book is it seems to take the middle view: don't aspire to big things, aspire to something between greatness and shittiness, while...more
Uhmm while the info given was not so bad, I did not like the feeling that I was being reprimanding the whole time for "being so stupid". Every other page was filled with the assumption that I thought I knew what I was talking about in "thinking" I wanted to go into business for myself.
A lot of what was stated in the book is info readily accessible in just about any other book with lots of online resources sprinkled in. But hey what do I know? I am far from a serial entrepreneur.
~Erika
A lot of what was stated in the book is info readily accessible in just about any other book with lots of online resources sprinkled in. But hey what do I know? I am far from a serial entrepreneur.
~Erika
What's not to love about this book? Scott Gerber provides readers with practical tips they can use to get their businesses started even with the tightest of budgets. He uses plain and simple language and illustrates his points very clearly. The one downside if I can even really call it that is most of the sources/websites he recommends to use as tools are US based and some are unavailable or not relevant to others (I live in the UK) but honestly that isn't a big deal, you can do your own researc...more
Fantastic kick in the pants motivational book. His advice, get off you rear and do it, start something. You don't have to plan it to death, or have bog bucks you just have to do it, make it work then make it grow. Ok, I know, duh we all know that. but do we all do it ? No, we over-plan over finance, over prepare for something before we even give it a try.
I really enjoyed this in your face book. I plan on reading it again.
I really enjoyed this in your face book. I plan on reading it again.
Mar 24, 2012
Alicia
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This book has so many helpful tips and tools for anyone looking to ditch the standard 9-5 way of life. More importantly, as someone who is starting my own business, Scott Gerber gives some great advice from his own experience and mishaps with a much appreciated, no B.S. approach.
Very cool information about becoming an entrepreneur that made me really think about the hardship and the trade-offs, unlike other books that make it look like it's a walk in the park. Bravo.
A solid book of advice on how to pursue entrepreneurship, but like all advice, should be taken with a a grain of salt. The author's tone could be best described as "dickhead," which can be irritating. His advice is also often contradictory, such as when he states one should be bluntly honesty in business, and then goes on to illustrate several examples where subterfuge seemed to serve him best. Nonetheless, Gerber illustrates offers some solid tips, especially on how to make a small business see...more
A book tailor made for Gen Y-ers about to leave school who are pessimistic about their job prospects. A helpful primer for young entrepreneurs looking to bypass the whole job market altogether.
Yes, this book keeps it real.
Jul 01, 2011
Marc Brodeur
rated it
3 of 5 stars
Recommends it for:
people with minimal business experience, or feel that they are not well disciplined
Actually a pretty good "no-nonsense" primer to what it takes to start a personal-scale business. Most of the advice was most applicable to service businesses like tutoring, video/photo, web, consulting, etc.
But there were some great nuggets of strategy and framework for how to think about your business, and also a good selection of current resources (mostly web-based) that can help out the entrepreneur.
But there were some great nuggets of strategy and framework for how to think about your business, and also a good selection of current resources (mostly web-based) that can help out the entrepreneur.
Feels like a lot of common-sense info, but at the same time it's stuff that needs to be said. There are plenty of useful gems in here, in any case.
Cheeky and unvarnished, Scott Gerber takes a "Fight Club" approach to entrepreneurial coaching. This book is obviously targeted at Gen-Yers who need constant overstimulation to hold their attention, but it's a fascinating and entertaining read nonetheless.
Two much swearing
Bom conteúdo, embora não tenha conseguido me prender na leitura.... Talvez a linguagem não tenha me agradado, mas o conteúdo é bom!
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