Review: The $100 Startup

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Review: The $100 Startup: Reinvent the Way You Make a Living, Do What You Love, and Create a New Future by Chris Guillebeau

ISBN-10: 0307951529
ISBN-13: 978-0307951526

PROS:

  • Gives simple advice on doing your own startup.
  • Provides many useful examples.
  • A focus on action.
  • Admits up front your “dream” may not be what you’ll actually end up doing.

CONS:

  • Doesn’t cover everything you’d need, and though it admits it, it’s not complete.
  • Targeted at a pretty sophisticated audience – which might not be you initially.

SUMMARY: A good book to read when you want to found your own startup, and good to give you a kick to get going.  Worth buying and rereading if you’re serious.

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Focused Fandom – Updated

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I just updated Focused Fandom, and I’ll be integrating my other fan-career books under its banner, especially when I go to second edition of Fan To Pro.

So really all my works will be under this banner, and it’ll let me manage resources and guides for everyone a lot easier.

However, I noticed I need reviews for Focused Fandom: Fanart, Fanartists, and Careers, and Convention Career Connection.  So if you want to review one, a free copy is in it for you!  Go on and contact me.

– Steven Savage

Steven Savage is a Geek 2.0 writer, speaker, blogger, and job coach.  He blogs on careers at http://www.fantopro.com/, nerd and geek culture at http://www.nerdcaliber.com/, and does a site of creative tools at http://www.seventhsanctum.com/. He can be reached at https://www.stevensavage.com/.

 

Open Education And Opportunities

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When I was at a Zero1 event, I heard about the efforts to use Open Source for education in Malaysia.  This was among many, many things discussed (some of which will find their way into the blog here).  But this got me thinking.

I’ve discussed before the role of “backlog” in media – we have so much made and recorded in various forms, this ever-growing amount of sheer media, that it has made me question how it affects the development of new media.  Novelty, however, is very important in maintaining media interest.

Not as much in education.

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