Never Get a "Real" Job

Informationen zum Autor SCOTT GERBER is a serial entrepreneur, internationally syndicated business columnist, and founder of the Young Entrepreneur Council (YEC), an organization comprised of hundreds of the world's most successful young entrepreneurs that promotes entrepreneurship as a solution to youth unemployment. Scott has been widely recognized as the world's most-syndicated columnist on the subject of entrepreneurship. His columns appear regularly on Fortune, TIME, Inc., CNBC, The Atlantic, Mashable, and The Next Web. Follow him at @askgerber or visit NeverGetARealJob.com. Klappentext A LOT OF BUSINESS BOOKS hold your hand, make you feel good, and are set to convince you that your passion and "unique" business idea are enough to plow through your competition, garner new leads, and make millions just because you can write a business plan that says so. This is not that kind of book. A twenty-something hustler, rainmaker, and bootstrapper who has survived and thrived despite never having held the proverbial "real" job, Scott Gerber is the ultimate "Generation Y-er." He's a self-taught serial entrepreneur who built several successful businesses without storied business connections, a business school background, executive training?or investment dollars. And in Never Get a "Real" Job , he shows you how he succeeded so you can overcome today's chronic conditions of mass unemployment, underemployment, and dead-end 9-to-5s. Gerber gives you the no-bull reality on turning your business idea into a viable enterprise capable of generating real income now ?based on his hard-knocks lessons learned in the entrepreneurial trenches. From the perils of doing too much too fast, to bogging down a promising start-up with infrastructure long before it's needed, Gerber has experienced firsthand how you can sabotage your own business. Never Get a "Real" Job will help you avoid the costly mistakes that can take down your enterprise at any time, helping you to get off the ground, establish your business, and keep it successfully up and running. But Gerber isn't just giving you a collection of war stories. He gives you insights from a fellow young entrepreneur on how to start from absolutely nothing?building a viable business model from the ground up. Along with straight-shooting advice on creating contacts and cultivating clients, he offers practical, affordable, step-by-step instructions on how to constantly analyze, refine, and target your business offerings?while minimizing wasted time and keeping you on track. With vast resources like online tools, Web sites, checklists, and hard coaching, as well as thousands of dollars worth of connections to free and discounted small business services, Never Get a "Real" Job takes you off the unrewarding resume and cover letter cycle, while putting you on the road toward becoming a self-sufficient business owner, and creating a life that gives you a real shot at the success you deserve. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments xiii Foreword Michael Simmons xvii Introduction: Never Get a "Real" Job 1 Who Needs the 9-to-5? 4 I Know You 6 What You Can Expect to Get from This Book 7 All Aboard the Death to the "Real" Job Express! 8 Part One The Breakdown 11 Chapter 1 Everyone Poops. Yours Isn't Special 13 College: The Drunken Road to Easy Street 16 Dude, Where's My Dream Job? 17 Welcome to Your "Real" Job, Mr. Janitor 18 The Broken Promise 24 Chapter 2 No One Cares About You-Unless You Make Them Care 29 You are Not Special ...

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SCOTT GERBER is a serial entrepreneur, internationally syndicated business columnist, and founder of the Young Entrepreneur Council (YEC), an organization comprised of hundreds of the world's most successful young entrepreneurs that promotes entrepreneurship as a solution to youth unemployment. Scott has been widely recognized as the world's most-syndicated columnist on the subject of entrepreneurship. His columns appear regularly on Fortune, TIME, Inc., CNBC, The Atlantic, Mashable, and The Next Web. Follow him at @askgerber or visit NeverGetARealJob.com.

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A LOT OF BUSINESS BOOKS hold your hand, make you feel good, and are set to convince you that your passion and "unique" business idea are enough to plow through your competition, garner new leads, and make millions just because you can write a business plan that says so. This is not that kind of book. A twenty-something hustler, rainmaker, and bootstrapper who has survived and thrived despite never having held the proverbial "real" job, Scott Gerber is the ultimate "Generation Y-er." He's a self-taught serial entrepreneur who built several successful businesses without storied business connections, a business school background, executive training?or investment dollars. And in Never Get a "Real" Job, he shows you how he succeeded so you can overcome today's chronic conditions of mass unemployment, underemployment, and dead-end 9-to-5s. Gerber gives you the no-bull reality on turning your business idea into a viable enterprise capable of generating real income now?based on his hard-knocks lessons learned in the entrepreneurial trenches. From the perils of doing too much too fast, to bogging down a promising start-up with infrastructure long before it's needed, Gerber has experienced firsthand how you can sabotage your own business. Never Get a "Real" Job will help you avoid the costly mistakes that can take down your enterprise at any time, helping you to get off the ground, establish your business, and keep it successfully up and running. But Gerber isn't just giving you a collection of war stories. He gives you insights from a fellow young entrepreneur on how to start from absolutely nothing?building a viable business model from the ground up. Along with straight-shooting advice on creating contacts and cultivating clients, he offers practical, affordable, step-by-step instructions on how to constantly analyze, refine, and target your business offerings?while minimizing wasted time and keeping you on track. With vast resources like online tools, Web sites, checklists, and hard coaching, as well as thousands of dollars worth of connections to free and discounted small business services, Never Get a "Real" Job takes you off the unrewarding resume and cover letter cycle, while putting you on the road toward becoming a self-sufficient business owner, and creating a life that gives you a real shot at the success you deserve.

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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.

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Acknowledgments xiii

Foreword Michael Simmons xvii

Introduction: Never Get a "Real" Job 1

Who Needs the 9-to-5? 4

I Know You 6

What You Can Expect to Get from This Book 7

All Aboard the Death to the "Real" Job Express! 8

Part One The Breakdown 11

Chapter 1 Everyone Poops. Yours Isn't Special 13

College: The Drunken Road to Easy Street 16

Dude, Where's My Dream Job? 17

Welcome to Your "Real" Job, Mr. Janitor 18

The Broken Promise 24

Chapter 2 No One Cares About You-Unless You Make Them Care 29

You are Not Special 32

Claiming to Be a Winner Does Not Make You One 33

You're Brilliant . . . So What? 34

Lifestyles of the Poor and Vain 34

Shut Up, Pinocchio 35

Put It on My Tab 36

Chapter 3 Darwin + Murphy = Reality 39

Your Business is Not the Exception to Any Rule 42

The Worst-Case Scenario is the Only Scenario 48

No One Will Invest in Your Idea 50

Part Two Building a Foundation 55

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