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I try to avoid writing too much about being an online entrepreneur. For one, there are plenty of people writing about it who are much better than I am<\/a>. Even after being at this game for nine years, I still feel like a newbie most the time.<\/p>\n

I also try to avoid hyping entrepreneurship too much. It\u2019s incredibly hard work to get established, there are no guarantees of success and you\u2019ll face tons of discouragement. There are many less dramatic professions which nobody hypes, but many people would be happy in.<\/p>\n

Those caveats aside, I can be honest: the decision to start my own business was easily the best decision I\u2019ve made in my life. No other decision really even comes close.<\/p>\n

I loved building it when it was just an idea, and I love running it now that it is my reality. I\u2019d like to write more, but it would end up sounding like a Hollywood clich\u00c3\u00a9, so I\u2019ll leave it at that.<\/p>\n

No, my experience isn\u2019t universal. I was successful; many aren\u2019t. It\u2019s a virtue of the selection bias that I get to tell you I\u2019m happy with my choice, but the disillusioned former entrepreneurs don\u2019t have a soapbox to balance my rhetoric.<\/p>\n

I can\u2019t tell you to start a business, or even whether you should. But if you feel the uncontrollable urge to go out and create something in the world, you should at least be serious about that desire. That means being aggressive about learning as much as you can about what makes it possible for some people to succeed at it.<\/p>\n

The $100 Startup<\/h2>\n

My friends Adam Baker and Karol Gajda have put together an amazing package of resources for entrepreneurs, in support of Chris Guillebeau\u2019s new book, The $100 Startup<\/a><\/strong>. It\u2019s been a frenzied discussion all over the blogosphere, so you\u2019ve probably already read about it.<\/p>\n

The book is included, and it takes an extremely pragmatic approach to running a business. Chris actually went out and selected over 2000 actual lifestyle entrepreneurs to interview about their success. It\u2019s about actual people, not abstract theory.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m already biased on this issue, so I decided to affiliate with Chris, Adam and Karol to help promote the package here. If you buy the package through my link<\/a><\/strong> and email me<\/a> the receipt, I\u2019ll forward you a copy of my book\u2014Think Outside the Cubicle<\/a>, which is aimed at productivity for entrepreneurs.<\/p>\n

The offer is time-limited since an unfortunate artifact of the book publishing process is that the lifetime sales of a book depend heavily on its initial promotion. If you want to get the offer you should take advantage of it now, since the discount is incredibly steep for only a short time window.<\/p>\n

I can\u2019t tell you what your experience will be. But as I look out from my window onto one of the most beautiful cities in the world, working only on projects of my own desire and having nearly complete freedom, I realize how different my life could have been if I hadn\u2019t taken that chance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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