From the title, What I Learned from Losing a Million Dollars, you immediately get that Jim Paul has learned his lesson. Not only did he lose a lot of money, but he took the time to write a book explaining to you the personal shortcomings that led to that disaster....
It’s difficult to overstate the importance of Elon Musk in our current time. He’s a combination of Thomas Edison, Henry Ford, and Steve Jobs. He already helped create a company that was the starting gun for what would lead to cryptocurrency (PayPal) and in his spare...
Because college degrees carry (still) such an outsized weight of social proof, some business owners have been known to acquire an MBA after they’ve built, scaled, and sold a company. Josh Kaufman persuasively argues in his 400+ page book The Personal MBA that...
Derek Sivers sold his company, CD Baby, for $22M. For years he’d made tens of millions of dollars for independent musicians by giving them a platform by which they could sell to their fans. Some time after, he wrote a very short book about the experience,...
Marty Neumeier’s short slide-presentation book, ZAG, at 192 pages, is one of the shortest books we’ve covered in our Book Club series. Don’t let the smaller size fool you, however. Neumeier covers a plethora of information about being the best brand possible....
Disruption seems to be a constant in the “you economy” of today. Taxis and even public transport are being disrupted by Uber and Lyft. Hotels and motels are being disrupted by Airbnb. Billboards are being disrupted by the one device most people are likely to be...
