Have you been thinking about The Great Resignation? Are you looking to be rewarded better for your energy and time? And should you join the global start-up boom?
It seems people everywhere are taking offline business into the digital world, solving logistical problems and profiting, or opening breweries and the like! There has been an unprecedented boom in new businesses around the world, a veritable start-up rush.
You too can take your personal passions and make them pay big, but you have to do it right because up to 90% of start-ups fail in their first year. It is best to read up and learn a few things first. Spend time with the experts as they unpack their tips and the things they wish they’d known when they started out. Below we have collected our 6 favourite books on start-ups and side hustles. You can learn from the masters, including the founders of PayPal, AfterPay, Finder and more. Be prepared and inspired, get advice on raising capital and positioning your brand and more. Then you can make your vision a reality and build a business you’ll love.
For more, be sure to visit our Start-Ups & Side Hustles collection.
Find. Build. Sell.
by Stephen J. Hunt
Discover how one of Australia’s most successful hotel publicans turned his $100 backyard beer garden into a $100 million pub empire.
In his straightforward and down-to-earth Australian style, Stephen J. Hunt outlines the blueprint and frameworks he uses to turn failing and under-performing businesses into multi-million-dollar successes. Hunt draws on his own dishwasher-to-pub mogul story to provide readers with an actionable roadmap to formulating an idea, raising money, recruiting employees, fending off competitors, and, eventually, cashing out.
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How to Begin
by Michael Bungay Stanier
We unlock our greatness by working on the hard things. Coaching expert and bestselling author Michael Bungay Stanier (MBS) is on a mission: to help people achieve their most ambitious, daunting, worthy projects. But how can you get across the threshold so you can make bolder, more courageous choices in other areas of your life? The secret doesn’t lie in mastering new habits and hacks; it’s about downloading a new operating system for your life. MBS shows you how to regain power and make forward progression on projects and dreams that are meaningful to you. Let MBS show you how to get clear, get confident, and start anything that matters.
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Passion. Purpose. Profit.
by Fiona Killackey
It’s one thing to have a business idea, or even to start a creative business. It’s quite another to scale it sustainably without increasing your financial and emotional stress. For most small business owners, what starts as something energising quickly turns into something overwhelming and energy depleting. You spend so much time in your business, it’s hard to find any time to work on your business.
In this practical guide, experienced business coach and creative consultant Fiona Killackey shows you how to scale the business without scaling the stress. From validating your business idea (whatever stage in its development), mapping out your money and specifying your business goals, through to hiring staff and defining your marketing plan, Passion Purpose Profit gives you a clear understanding of where you’re going and exactly how you’ll get there. Complete with step-by-step tips and templates, as well as case studies of successful creative business owners, Passion. Purpose. Profit. will have you empowered and excited about business again.
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The Monocle Book of Entrepreneurs
by Tyler Brule, Joe Pickard and Andrew Tuck
As we face a world that is undergoing unparalleled change, no area is more dynamic than business. To help us understand, navigate and succeed in this new world, the team at Monocle brings together its unique knowledge of culture, politics, economics, and business.
Featuring stories of people running enterprises on every scale, the inspirational tales in this book provide readers with insights into the challenges and joys of creativity and entrepreneurship. These unmatched case studies reveal, among many success stories, how leaders choose branding, hire teams and design workspaces for today’s needs.
Whether you are planning to make a life change, start a new business, or reinvigorate an existing one, The Monocle Book of Entrepreneurs is a resource for anyone who wants to make a difference in their work and life.
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Zero to One
by Peter Thiel and Blake Masters
What valuable company is nobody building?
The next Bill Gates will not build an operating system. The next Larry Page or Sergey Brin won’t make a search engine. If you are copying these guys, you aren’t learning from them. It’s easier to copy a model than to make something new: doing what we already know how to do takes the world from 1 to n, adding more of something familiar. Every new creation goes from 0 to 1. This book is about how to get there. Peter Thiel has built multiple breakthrough companies (including PayPal), and Zero to One shows how.
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The Founders
by Jimmy Soni
The gripping inside story of PayPal, the company that created the digital age as we know it. Out of PayPal’s ranks have come three billionaires and dozens of multi-millionaires, including household names like Elon Musk, Peter Thiel and Reid Hoffman. PayPal’s alumni have built, funded and advised almost all of the billion-dollar-plus companies to emerge from Silicon Valley in the past two decades.
Today, every online video you watch and every internet purchase you make bears PayPal’s fingerprints – its inventions made the modern internet possible and are embedded in our social networks, our banks and our intelligence agencies. This book tells the gripping story of how a scrappy start-up became one of the most successful businesses of all time, worth over $70 billion today. Full of fascinating characters and anecdotes about Silicon Valley’s biggest titans, The Founders also shows how the so-called PayPal Mafia continue to shape our future today.
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Robert O'Hearn
Robert O'Hearn is the non-fiction specialist at Booktopia HQ. He has been a bookseller for over three decades and can't seem to stop. He is an aspiring apiarist and likes playing Joy Division songs on mandolin. He is generally harmless.
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