Million Dollar Bedroom: Scrappy Lessons of Success, Setbacks, and Other Surprises Not Taught in Business School

by Matt DeCoursey

Based in a spare bedroom in his home, Matt DeCoursey built companies that generated millions of dollars in revenue and huge amounts of profit. And he started it all with only an American Express card with an $8,000 limit and a determined vision to succeed. Using the inspiring narrative of his startup journey—from its profitable highs to its scrambling lows and all the hard-won education in between, Million Dollar Bedroom delivers a refreshingly unidealistic window into the pros and pitfalls of starting your own business. Packed with Million Dollar Lessons, topics include:

The most common reasons new businesses fail.
How to think like a search engine and get your business noticed.
Understanding your critical path to revenue.
How to start making money when you have no money.
Creating a truly professional business plan and what to expect for those seeking investment.
Insightful advice and stories from other hugely successful individuals.
With real-life education culled as much from failure as success, Million Dollar Bedroom brings unique authority to help avoid expensive mistakes and unnecessary heartache as you transform yourself from a dreamer to a true entrepreneur.

210 pages, Paperback

Published June 19, 2017

About the author

A highly successful entrepreneur, Matt DeCoursey launched his first company in a spare bedroom of his Indianapolis home in 2009. Using nothing but an AmEx card with an $8000 limit, he built companies that generated millions of dollars in revenue.

Matt is also the founder and CEO of GigaBook, a cloud based appointment-booking platform, which has the ability to provide utility to millions of small and medium sized businesses. He now lives in Kansas City with his wife and two children.

Reviews

[Aaron · Rating 4 out of 5]

Matt DeCoursey gives an overview of how he became successful in an easy-to-read format. It would be worth the time of a budding entrepreneur to pick up this book and glean some of the lessons from one who has been there and done that.
The content is appropriate for all ages, but the energy of the book feels to me like it would be best suited to teens and young adults.

* I received a free signed copy of this book from Goodreads Giveaways *

[Sandra Long · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book is an honest, straightforward guide to the ups and downs of starting your own business. The author, Matt DeCoursey, has obviously paid his entrepreneurial dues. Starting with little more than an American Express credit card and an office in his spare bedroom, DeCoursey created a highly lucrative online ticket company, which was to be the first of his many successful companies.
“Million Dollar Bedroom” gives the reader the benefit of the author’s personal experiences and the lessons he learned, sometimes the hard way. In this book, he shares the secrets of his many successes, but more importantly, he candidly discusses the details of his failures. Far from being afraid or embarrassed by his blunders, DeCoursey takes his mistakes and hones them into profitable learning tools.
One of the things I like most about this author is that he genuinely writes for his readers. Gone are the clever made up words and overly complicated theories that plague many business start up books. Instead there are clear, concise guidelines and common sense approaches to problem solving and business planning. DeCoursey also has an open, humorous style that makes this book enjoyable as well as informative. It’s a great read for anyone thinking of starting a business or for those who already have.