Derek SiversRezensionen

I understand why people hype this book up. It’s not a bad book though, but not my type.

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So so.

I needed to read something like this, so desperately. Feels good to have some of your personal ideas reassured.

This book is written about music and musicians but it really applies to any creative endeavor. Good ideas to help you get your music (or creative work) out there. Short read - recommend.

A quick and interesting read about figuring how and on what to spend your time. Derek looks at things a bit differently, which can be helpful. His ideas can be applied to many areas of your life. Some similar ideas to Seth Godin. Recommend.

Great short read about Siver's experience founding a company and keeping it fun and true to himself. Such a short insightful read. "Never forget why you're really doing what you're doing. Are you helping people? Are they happy? Are you happy? Are you profitable? Isn't that enough?"

A short and beautiful book from an accidental - and very successful- entrepreneur. Derek is man who knows who he is and what matters most (to him).

Rehash of all his blog posts. Great nuggets of wisdom nevertheless.

The former owner of CD Baby recounts his humble beginnings and business and life lessons in this light and engaging read. His maxim of concentrating on staying useful and helpful to clients and customers while maintaining a sense of humor, rather than focusing on growth and surviving in the business world, is refreshing. A light and engaging read. Recommended.

Derek Sivers’ Anything You Want is a quick read. It comes in under an hour if you don’t take notes and don’t stop to think about things. But I am guessing you will want to as there a some pretty inspirational (and easy to implement) ideas for serving your customers.

This is not a how-to business book. It is much more a manifesto on keeping things clear, simple and taking a common sense approach to work. Sivers, founded and sold CDBaby.com. This book is a summation of the lessons he learned with the stories that taught him.

My favorite part is titled Ideas are just a multiplayer of Execution. Basically he says an awful idea gets a -1 rating while a brilliant idea gets a 20. “No execution” is worth $1 while “brilliant execution” is worth $10,000,000. So a brilliant idea with poor execution will only get you $20 while a weak idea (a full 1 rating) brilliantly executed would get you $10,000,000. These are the extremes and there are tiers between them. It gives you an idea of where your so-so idea with a so-so execution plan would land you. I really like the perspective this lends.

Lots of practical advice here. It’s the kind you’d get if you were sitting in the back yard drinking a beer with Sivers. He’s quick to explain, in very plain images, why (to him) legal stuff just doesn’t matter and how business folks don’t stay clear-headed enough. You will not hear these kinds of points being made by any MBA.

Basically he sums it up with keep the customer first. You better be solving a real problem. And the success will naturally happen.

In such a small book, Sivers crams tons of insight on work ethic, customers (very important), business formalities vs. flying by the seat of your pants, etc. all of which is backed with stories of his founding, running and selling CDBaby.com. He even tells the story of when Steve Jobs dissed him.

This book seems to speak to the entrepreneurial spirits out there. But I also think that it serves as a fun quick “gut check” for those looking to tweak their existing business set-ups. I give this one 4 out of 5 stars.

Very short, inspirational, honest account of how CDBaby was created then sold. (CDBaby was a successful early internet company.) He is the kind of guy that would rather be happy than rich and he explores his journey using this criteria. This is so short (1.5hr) and inspirational I will listen to it again. If you like this book you should read "Delivering Happiness" by Tony Hsieh.½