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


BUILT TO SELL—0 STARTUP COMPARISON



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The 100 Startup Reinvent the Way You Make a Living, Do What You Love, and Create a New Future by Chris Guillebeau (z-lib.org).epub

BUILT TO SELL—$100 STARTUP COMPARISON


 
In trying to decide which path to pursue, the simple question to answer
is: “What kind of freedom do you want?” John’s model is all about creating
an entity apart from yourself and then selling it for a big payday. The $100
Startup  model  is  more  about  transitioning  to  a  business  or  independent
career  that  is  based  on  something  you  love  to  do—in  other  words,
something  intrinsically  related  to  the  owner’s  skill  or  passion.  Neither
model is better; it just depends on your goals.
If you’d like to have the option of selling your business one day, John’s
point  is  that  you  have  to  plan  for  it  by  taking  specific  steps.  The  most
important  step  in  creating  an  independent  identity  for  the  business  is  to
create a product or service with the potential to scale. This is an important
distinction  from  many  of  the  businesses  we’ve  described  thus  far,  so  let’s
take a look at how John explains it.
 
A  scalable  business  is  built  on  something  that  is  both  teachable  and
valuable.  A  CPA  provides  a  highly  valuable  service,  but  it  isn’t  easily
teachable (she can’t just bring someone into her practice and hand it over to


him).  On  the  other  hand,  you  can  teach  someone  how  to  bus  tables  at  a
restaurant in a few minutes, but that isn’t a valuable service (lots of people
can bus tables). Therefore, a business that has the potential to be sold easily
for  a  high  profit  offers  something  at  the  intersection  of  teachable  and
valuable.
John  built  a  subscription  service  that  conducted  financial  research  and
provided  a  series  of  informative  reports.  This  was  highly  valuable  to  his
clients but also teachable to other employees. Another time he built a firm
that  produced  consumer  focus  groups  for  big  companies—again,  a  highly
valuable service, but also replicable under new ownership.
The  solutions  found  by  Tsilli,  Cherie,  Tom,  Jessica,  and  John  varied
considerably.  In  implementing  their  solutions,  each  of  them  said  yes  to
something  while  saying  no  to  something  else.  Tom  declined  to  accept  the
deals  from  big-box  retailers,  but  he  wasn’t  afraid  to  hire  employees  and
grow on his own terms. Cherie preferred to keep things small and intimate.
Tsilli found security by growing her business and working as a contractor
for her former employer.
What united these different experiences was a sense of controlling their
own destiny and finding freedom in nurturing a meaningful project. As your
own  project  grows,  you’ll  also  need  to  make  decisions  based  on  your
preferences and specific vision. Just remember that these are good decisions
to make and a good position to be in.

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