Best known for creating CD Baby, the most popular music site for independent artists, founder Derek Sivers chronicles his “accidental” success and failures into this concise and inspiring book on how to create a multi-million dollar company by following your passion. In Anything You Want, Sivers details his journey and the lessons learned along the way of creating CD Baby and building a business close to his heart. “[Sivers is] one of the last music-business folk heroes,” says Esquire magazine. His less-scripted approach to business is refreshing and will educate readers to feel empowered to follow their own dreams. Aspiring entrepreneurs and others trying to make their own way will be particularly comforted by Sivers straight talk and transparency -a reminder that anything you want is within your reach.
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Tim Ferriss Reviews Anything You Want
Tim Ferriss is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The 4-Hour Body and The 4-Hour Workweek. He has a diverse background of experience, including working as an actor, speaking seven foreign languages, holding a world record in tango, and being a national Chinese kickboxing champion. He has written for Maxim and the Philadelphia Inquirer, has appeared on MTV and CBS radio, and has been interviewed or featured in such major publications as the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, and more. Read his review of Derek Sivers's Anything You Want:
Tim Ferriss is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The 4-Hour Body and The 4-Hour Workweek. He has a diverse background of experience, including working as an actor, speaking seven foreign languages, holding a world record in tango, and being a national Chinese kickboxing champion. He has written for Maxim and the Philadelphia Inquirer, has appeared on MTV and CBS radio, and has been interviewed or featured in such major publications as the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, and more. Read his review of Derek Sivers's Anything You Want: I love this book!
Derek is the entrepreneur's entrepreneur. Just as important, perhaps more so--he is a phenomenal teacher. Whether detailing the fascinating rise of CDBaby, explaining catastrophic (but common) founder mistakes, or teaching me about relational databases in two minutes using analogies, he makes the complex simple. Moreover, he makes it all actionable.
If you want a true manifesto, a guidebook with clear signposts, and a fun ride you'll return to again and again, you have it here in this book. I hope you enjoy it as much as I did. --Tim Ferriss
About the Author
After making a living as a professional musician, Derek Sivers went looking for ways to sell his own CD online and ended up creating CD Baby, once the largest seller of independent music on the web with over $100M in sales for over 150,000 musician clients. Since 2008, Derek has traveled the world and stayed busy creating and nurturing creative endeavors, like Muckwork, his newest company where teams of efficient assistants help musicians do their “uncreative dirty work.” Derek writes regularly on creativity, entrepreneurship, and music on his blog: http://sivers.org/.
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
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This book takes about an hour to read but it will probably change the way you think about life.
Lots of people I know want to be entrepreneurs. Lots of people I know are entrepreneurs. Not enough of the people I know have worked out what is important in their lives. This book by Derek Sivers will probably help them work out what is important to them.
I read this book on holiday. I left it lying around one evening and the next morning a lawyer came up to me and apologised for 'stealing' the book but he had seen it on a table and picked it up out of curiosity. He was thinking very hard about leaving his firm and becoming an entrepreneur. This book persuaded him he shouldn't. He didn't have the passion for it.
I bought a few copies for people I know that I know are struggling with hard things in their business and personal lives. Without exception, they have come back with a fresh perspective and bought a copy for someone else they know.
It is hard to define what makes this book special. I am about as far from a wafty, softy new age person as you can get. It just offers some great and fresh perspectives on life. You don't have to accept it all as truth.
I enjoyed it, and enjoyed giving it away to people so much that I bought 380 extra copies for the attendees at Business of Software this year.
You also get free access to a whole load of music that is pretty cool too.
Anything You Want
Lots of people I know want to be entrepreneurs. Lots of people I know are entrepreneurs. Not enough of the people I know have worked out what is important in their lives. This book by Derek Sivers will probably help them work out what is important to them.
I read this book on holiday. I left it lying around one evening and the next morning a lawyer came up to me and apologised for 'stealing' the book but he had seen it on a table and picked it up out of curiosity. He was thinking very hard about leaving his firm and becoming an entrepreneur. This book persuaded him he shouldn't. He didn't have the passion for it.
I bought a few copies for people I know that I know are struggling with hard things in their business and personal lives. Without exception, they have come back with a fresh perspective and bought a copy for someone else they know.
It is hard to define what makes this book special. I am about as far from a wafty, softy new age person as you can get. It just offers some great and fresh perspectives on life. You don't have to accept it all as truth.
I enjoyed it, and enjoyed giving it away to people so much that I bought 380 extra copies for the attendees at Business of Software this year.
You also get free access to a whole load of music that is pretty cool too.
Anything You Want
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
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It's easy to mistrust a set of five-star reviews. As I write this, all the reviewers that have gone before me have also given this book five stars.
Deservedly so. It is a little gem with a lot of thought-provoking insights for anyone determined to make a success of their own business. Sivers comes across as man who is not just smart, but wise as well. It's short, well-written, and well worth reading if you own or aspire to own your own business.
Deservedly so. It is a little gem with a lot of thought-provoking insights for anyone determined to make a success of their own business. Sivers comes across as man who is not just smart, but wise as well. It's short, well-written, and well worth reading if you own or aspire to own your own business.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
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Not just a book about building a business, this is a beautiful story of living life. Forget the self help, Power of Now stuff. Read a real life example of how to be happy.
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Derek's way resonates with me. Derek also returns the e-mails! So...
I bought the audio book via Audible.co.uk as a part of the membership. It is only 2 CDs, however so informative. I have listened it twice in my car. Derek recorded it himself. Read more
Published 6 months ago by Viktar Zaitsau
4.0 out of 5 stars
Nice story, inspirative
Nice real life story with exactly the same opinion about business that I share!
Well, except "Terms and Conditions" part and that legal stuff ;)
Anyway, great reading (2... Read more
Well, except "Terms and Conditions" part and that legal stuff ;)
Anyway, great reading (2... Read more
Published 11 months ago by joooc
4.0 out of 5 stars
Anything You Want by Derek Sivers
A sort-of vitamin supplement for budding start-ups and established business-folk. This is bitesize, painless and full of the good stuff. Read more
Published 15 months ago by R. A.
4.0 out of 5 stars
I liked it, but is it 5 * ??
I liked this book, but im not sure its 5* !
This book is not really going to tell you much about being an entrepreneur, but it is easy to read, with some though... Read more
This book is not really going to tell you much about being an entrepreneur, but it is easy to read, with some though... Read more
Published 15 months ago by Ice Cream Boy
5.0 out of 5 stars
Light, insighfull and encouraging read.
I really enjoyed reading Derek Siver's experiences and thoughts.
This book is easy to read. Read more
This book is easy to read. Read more
Published 16 months ago by David
4.0 out of 5 stars
Interesting and thought provoking
The story of how a twenty-something musician accidentally started a business with $500 and built up and sold a company worth $22 million. Read more
Published 17 months ago by Kristofor Bolton
5.0 out of 5 stars
Anti-MBA in 2 hours
A simply story of how one man's passion led to a success he had never dreamt of or even wanted. Using a no-nonsense language, Sivers explains how commitment and sticking to his... Read more
Published 17 months ago by RobertBlaszczak
5.0 out of 5 stars
Worth every penny
The book is both entertaining and practical, you probably would get through it in an hour, the author has an easy style about him with regards to his business - an easy method to... Read more
Published 20 months ago by Avril
5.0 out of 5 stars
Bite-size read
It's been a while since I read a book twice and an age since i actually made some notes on a book while i was reading it (I think that would have been "Romeo and Juliet" when I was... Read more
Published 22 months ago by ADN
5.0 out of 5 stars
Great book, business wisdom in bite-sized chunks
I really enjoyed this book. Although it might not be the 'manual for success' that some people might be looking for it does challenge you to think for yourself whilst taking on... Read more
Published 22 months ago by Johnny Boy
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