THIS IS A PREVIEW of another book called Entrepreneur Life. My hope is that you'll read this first, get something out of it, and then put up the money for the whole book. You can get that book where you got this one, or anywhere you can buy books.
Entrepreneur Life is a startup book for everyone, from people just starting out to people who have done startup more than once.
This is not what you'd expect out of a startup book. It goes against the grain of everything that's being sold as startup culture today. It's not hip, it's not trendy, and it's not a bunch of commandments, rules and slogans coming down from on high.
This is about a new way to look at entrepreneurism, and it's about independence, freedom, growth, achievement, happiness, and success, no matter what it is that you start.
The earlier chapters link to the earlier part of startup. And that's what you're getting here in The Jump. As you get deeper into running your own company, the later chapters of Entrepreneur Life will apply a little more directly. But I hope it's all valuable and applicable, no matter where you are on your journey.
Look, there are a lot of people out there like you. Startup is not an exclusive club. It's not a rite of passage. It's not about board seats and billions of dollars. It's about waking up every day and doing what you love.
That’s what this book is about.
Currently, I'm at Automated Insights, a company that makes software that automatically writes narrative content from raw data. I've been at Ai since 2010, and while I was there I founded ExitEvent in my spare time. ExitEvent is a startup network and news source, and in three years it became the most widely-read startup media site in the Southeast. I sold ExitEvent in 2013. Ai was acquired in 2015.
Since then, I've been investing in startups, meeting with founders, mentoring, advising, all of that cool stuff you get to do when you exit. But none of that made sense to me. I was able to help a handful of people at a time, and I found I was saying a lot of the same stuff over and over.
I needed to scale. This book is a part of that effort.
So look at this book as a series of coffee or beer meetings (or whatever you want to drink, I'm not going to judge you) with someone who has been there, and has spent years talking to other people who are in your shoes.
Even if you pay ten times as much for this book, you'll be saving on buying drinks. That alone makes it worth it, right?
Entrepreneur Life is a startup book for everyone, from people just starting out to people who have done startup more than once.
This is not what you'd expect out of a startup book. It goes against the grain of everything that's being sold as startup culture today. It's not hip, it's not trendy, and it's not a bunch of commandments, rules and slogans coming down from on high.
This is about a new way to look at entrepreneurism, and it's about independence, freedom, growth, achievement, happiness, and success, no matter what it is that you start.
The earlier chapters link to the earlier part of startup. And that's what you're getting here in The Jump. As you get deeper into running your own company, the later chapters of Entrepreneur Life will apply a little more directly. But I hope it's all valuable and applicable, no matter where you are on your journey.
Look, there are a lot of people out there like you. Startup is not an exclusive club. It's not a rite of passage. It's not about board seats and billions of dollars. It's about waking up every day and doing what you love.
That’s what this book is about.
Currently, I'm at Automated Insights, a company that makes software that automatically writes narrative content from raw data. I've been at Ai since 2010, and while I was there I founded ExitEvent in my spare time. ExitEvent is a startup network and news source, and in three years it became the most widely-read startup media site in the Southeast. I sold ExitEvent in 2013. Ai was acquired in 2015.
Since then, I've been investing in startups, meeting with founders, mentoring, advising, all of that cool stuff you get to do when you exit. But none of that made sense to me. I was able to help a handful of people at a time, and I found I was saying a lot of the same stuff over and over.
I needed to scale. This book is a part of that effort.
So look at this book as a series of coffee or beer meetings (or whatever you want to drink, I'm not going to judge you) with someone who has been there, and has spent years talking to other people who are in your shoes.
Even if you pay ten times as much for this book, you'll be saving on buying drinks. That alone makes it worth it, right?
