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How Great Founders Do More with Less
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Sahil Lavingia
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Sahil Lavingia
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“Pay attention.” (Jason Fried)
A revolutionary road map for building start-ups that go the distance.
Now more than ever, you don’t need a fancy office, Ivy League degree, or millions of dollars in venture capital to launch a business that matters for the communities you care most about. Software, the internet, and remote work have made it possible for entrepreneurs to start for free, make a customer of anyone, and grow a profitable, sustainable company from anywhere.
Packed with hard-won, battle-tested lessons from Lavingia’s own journey of building Gumroad, a platform for creators to sell their work, The Minimalist Entrepreneur teaches founders how to:
- Start then learn
- Build a community, then solve a problem for them
- Charge for something even before you’ve built anything
- Avoid running out of money and, more importantly, energy
- Run a tight ship amid the rise of the gig economy and remote work
- Own a business without it owning you back
The Minimalist Entrepreneur is the manifesto for a new generation of founders who would rather build great companies than big ones. This is essential knowledge for every founder aspiring to build a business worth building.
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Critic reviews
"Sahil Lavingia's book changed the way I think about my life and my business, and opened my mind to possibilities for a different--and better--model for successful entrepreneurship. A brilliant, fascinating read." (John Green, cofounder of Complexly and author of The Fault in Our Stars and The Anthropocene Reviewed)
"Sahil knows not. He knows what not to do, what not to follow, how not to waste, and how not to get caught up in the hype. What's left is the yes - the stuff that really works, the things that actually matter. It's all in this book, and much of it only in this book. Pay attention." (Jason Fried, cofounder of Basecamp and coauthor of Rework)
"A must-read for any potential founder. Brilliant insights into starting something simply and sensibly. Best guide to the new world of starting from anywhere." (Derek Sivers, founder of CDBaby and author of Anything You Want)
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You started a business. But why? Entrepreneurs often lose sight of what matters. Are you helping people? Are they happy? Are you happy? Are you profitable? Isn't that enough? Derek Sivers accidentally started a business by helping musicians sell their music. It became the largest online seller of independent music with over 150,000 musicians and $100M in sales. After ten years, he sold the company for $22 million and gave all the money to charity.
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Mind blowing in many ways
- By Ariel Cascallares on 05-27-25
By: Derek Sivers
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The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Keeping Your Sh*t Together
- How to Run Your Business Without Letting It Run You
- By: Sherry Walling PhD, Rob Walling
- Narrated by: Sherry Walling
- Length: 5 hrs and 54 mins
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You run a business. And running a business is hard. The burden of responsibility, the weight of stress, and the loneliness of running your business are a far cry from your friends who work salaried jobs. The path of least resistance is to let the stress and isolation of starting, running, and growing a business infiltrate most aspects of your life. Over and over, we've watched our fellow entrepreneurs succumb to the mental toll and chaos of running a business. We've also experienced it firsthand as we've launched and grown our own businesses.
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A++ 10/10
- By David Colgan on 07-17-18
By: Sherry Walling PhD, and others
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It Doesn't Have to Be Crazy at Work
- By: Jason Fried, David Heinemeier Hansson
- Narrated by: Eileen Stevens
- Length: 3 hrs and 18 mins
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In this timely manifesto, the authors of the New York Times best-seller Rework broadly reject the prevailing notion that long hours, aggressive hustle, and "whatever it takes" are required to run a successful business today.
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Worst. Business Book. Ever.
- By Dev345 on 11-10-18
By: Jason Fried, and others
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Tiny Business, Big Money
- Strategies for Creating a High-Revenue Microbusiness
- By: Elaine Pofeldt
- Narrated by: Elaine Pofeldt
- Length: 7 hrs and 57 mins
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Small business specialist Elaine Pofeldt offers her blueprint for getting a running start with your microbusiness—that is, a business with no more than four employees, including yourself. Following her previous book, The Million-Dollar, One-Person Business, Pofeldt shows listeners the steps toward their next entrepreneurial venture, including testing an idea’s market viability while limiting risk, finding cash without giving up control, protecting your personal time and avoiding burn out, and knowing when it is time to start micro-scaling.
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Great - but where's the PDF
- By Mike on 01-10-23
By: Elaine Pofeldt
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Super Pumped
- The Battle for Uber
- By: Mike Isaac
- Narrated by: Holter Graham, Mike Isaac
- Length: 12 hrs and 52 mins
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A New York Times technology correspondent presents the dramatic rise and fall of Uber, set against the rapid upheaval in Silicon Valley during the mobile era. Based on hundreds of interviews with current and former Uber employees, along with previously unpublished documents, Super Pumped is a pause-resisting story of ambition and deception, obscene wealth, and bad behavior, that explores how blistering technological and financial innovation culminated in one of the most catastrophic 12-month periods in American corporate history.
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A forced narrative and a bad version of Bad Blood
- By Benji on 09-09-19
By: Mike Isaac
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What You Do Is Who You Are
- How to Create Your Business Culture
- By: Ben Horowitz
- Narrated by: Kevin Kenerly
- Length: 6 hrs and 12 mins
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Ben Horowitz, a leading venture capitalist, modern management expert, and New York Times best-selling author, combines lessons both from history and from modern organizational practice with practical and often surprising advice to help executives build cultures that can weather both good and bad times. What You Do Is Who You Are explains how to make your culture purposeful by spotlighting four models of leadership and culture-building.
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Life changing book!
- By Jurell Tanksley on 10-30-19
By: Ben Horowitz
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Everybody Writes (2nd Edition)
- Your New and Improved Go-to Guide to Creating Ridiculously Good Content
- By: Ann Handley
- Narrated by: Carolyn Jania, Ann Handley
- Length: 11 hrs and 26 mins
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In the newly revised and updated edition of Everybody Writes, marketer and author Ann Handley improves on her Wall Street Journal bestselling book that's helped hundreds of thousands become better, more confident writers. In this brand-new edition, she delivers all the practical, how-to advice and insight you need for the process and strategy of content creation, production, and publishing.
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Great Content, Weak Narration
- By Jules on 07-27-24
By: Ann Handley
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Product-Led Growth
- How to Build a Product That Sells Itself
- By: Wes Bush
- Narrated by: Derek Dysart
- Length: 4 hrs and 23 mins
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Hi, I’m Wes Bush, founder of the Product-Led Institute. And in Product-Led Growth, I show you how you can cut your acquisition costs and scale further than you ever thought possible...by making your product the tool that helps you acquire, convert, and retain customers. But what does it mean to be "product-led"? How do you know if a product-led growth strategy makes sense for your business? And most importantly, how do you execute it? You’ll find answers to all of these questions inside this audiobook.
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A must read!
- By marianella on 12-01-20
By: Wes Bush
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The Startup Owner's Manual
- The Step-by-Step Guide for Building a Great Company
- By: Steve Blank, Bob Dorf
- Narrated by: Matthew Boston
- Length: 12 hrs and 59 mins
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More than 100,000 entrepreneurs rely on this book for detailed, step-by-step instructions on building successful, scalable, profitable startups. The National Science Foundation pays hundreds of startup teams each year to follow the process outlined in the book, and it's taught at Stanford, Berkeley, Columbia and more than 100 other leading universities worldwide. Why? The Startup Owner's Manual guides you, step-by-step, as you put the Customer Development process to work.
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Nothing to learn from this book
- By Thomas D. Kehoe on 02-23-22
By: Steve Blank, and others
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Flip the Script
- Getting People to Think Your Idea Is Their Idea
- By: Oren Klaff
- Narrated by: Oren Klaff
- Length: 6 hrs and 16 mins
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If there's one lesson Oren Klaff has learned over decades of pitching, presenting, and closing long-shot, high-stakes deals, it's that people are sick of being marketed and sold to. Most of all, they hate being told what to think. The more you push them, the more they resist. What people love, however, is coming up with a great idea on their own, even if it's the idea you were guiding them to have all along. Often, the only way to get someone to sign is to make them feel like they're smarter than you.
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Riveting. BLEW, MY, MIND
- By Justin on 09-19-19
By: Oren Klaff
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Predictable Revenue
- Turn Your Business Into A Sales Machine with the $100 Million Best Practices of Salesforce.com
- By: Aaron Ross, Marylou Tyler
- Narrated by: Mary Jane Wells
- Length: 5 hrs and 7 mins
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Discover the outbound sales process that, in just a few years, helped add $100 million in recurring revenue to Salesforce.com, almost doubling their enterprise growth...with zero cold calls. This is NOT another book about how to cold call or close deals. This is an entirely new kind of sales bible for CEOs, entrepreneurs and sales VPs to help you build a sales machine.
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Absolutely terrible narration. Not recommended.
- By Maximus on 02-22-14
By: Aaron Ross, and others
Great insight, perspective
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Excellent resource and fuel for thoughts
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I also loved the fact that it’s written by an entrepreneur who has really "done it" before. You know it’s legit since Lavingia has been in the trenches himself — and actually built a really solid business on top of this book's principles.
Sure, it’s simple at times, but I don’t think that’s actually a detractor here. Especially not in a short book that gives you what you need, then leaves you to it. Definitely worth picking up.
-Brian Sachetta
Author of “Get Out of Your Head”
Simple and good
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Exceptional subject matter for any individual
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Very easy to read absolutely worth it
One of the best book I read on entrepreneurship
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Amazing
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Best business book I’ve read
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Great book on startups
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A Story of America
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Enjoyable listen.
Sound advice.
Wayyyyy Better than the majority of other ramblings about starting a business. Sahil was the author and reader, and was easy to listen to. He didn't add a bunch of useless filler.
5 stars 🌟 🌟 🌟 🌟 🌟
Great advice for a small start up!
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