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Employee to Entrepreneur: How to Earn Your Freedom and Do Work that Matters
Make the leap and become an entrepreneur today Are you living for the weekend? Are you dissatisfied at work? Are you itching to do something that is important to you? How can you avoid the pitfalls that many first-time entrepreneurs have fallen into? How do you explore whether entrepreneurship is right for you without giving up your day job? Employee to Entrepreneur is your guide to leaving your job behind and building something for yourself. Author and employee-turned-entrepreneur Steve Glaveski, shows you how to navigate the challenges, find the entrepreneurial success that is right for you and become a better person along the way. Employee to Entrepreneur combines storytelling with a step-by-step framework to teach you how to effectively explore and leverage entrepreneurship to gain freedom, fulfillment and financial security. If you’re ready to leave your cushy employee life behind and build a business and a life you believe in, reading this essential guidebook is your first step to making it happen.
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304 pages, Paperback
Published January 16, 2019
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February 21, 2024
"Employee to Entrepreneur" promises to be a roadmap for those looking to transition from the corporate world to entrepreneurship. However, it falls flat on multiple fronts. The author's writing lacks depth and insight, making it feel like a surface-level overview rather than a comprehensive guide.
One of the biggest letdowns is the lack of practical advice. Instead of offering actionable steps and real-world examples, the book is filled with generic platitudes and clichés. It fails to address the unique challenges that aspiring entrepreneurs face, leaving readers feeling frustrated and uninformed.
Furthermore, the organization of the book is haphazard at best. Chapters lack cohesion, and the overall structure feels disjointed. It's as if the author threw together random thoughts without any thought to flow or progression.
In addition, the book's tone comes across as condescending and out of touch. The author seems disconnected from the realities of starting a business, opting instead to preach from a pedestal of assumed superiority.
Overall, "Employee to Entrepreneur" is a missed opportunity. Instead of providing valuable insights and guidance, it serves as little more than a hollow shell of a self-help book. Readers would be better off seeking advice elsewhere.
One of the biggest letdowns is the lack of practical advice. Instead of offering actionable steps and real-world examples, the book is filled with generic platitudes and clichés. It fails to address the unique challenges that aspiring entrepreneurs face, leaving readers feeling frustrated and uninformed.
Furthermore, the organization of the book is haphazard at best. Chapters lack cohesion, and the overall structure feels disjointed. It's as if the author threw together random thoughts without any thought to flow or progression.
In addition, the book's tone comes across as condescending and out of touch. The author seems disconnected from the realities of starting a business, opting instead to preach from a pedestal of assumed superiority.
Overall, "Employee to Entrepreneur" is a missed opportunity. Instead of providing valuable insights and guidance, it serves as little more than a hollow shell of a self-help book. Readers would be better off seeking advice elsewhere.
January 1, 2019
Honoured to be the first review after receiving an advanced copy of the book! Steve is a legend and has a heap of wisdom to share. I’ve read a bunch of weak “quit your job and follow your passion” books, and I’m glad to say that this is NOTHING like those!
Some of my favourite lessons from the book:
1. ‘Collecting the dots’. Steve Jobs said you can’t connect the dots looking forward, only looking backward, so it’s important to collect a lot of different dots at the start that you can connect later. Keep learning, expose yourself to a bunch of new ideas and environments.
2. Starting a business might be the last option. Steve provides 11 alternatives that you should try BEFORE quitting your job and following your passion.
3. Always test your ideas. You’ll never know if your idea is going to work, so don’t go ‘all in’ on your first attempt. Build an MVP, test that small prototype, make tweaks according to real data not your own assumptions.
Some of my favourite lessons from the book:
1. ‘Collecting the dots’. Steve Jobs said you can’t connect the dots looking forward, only looking backward, so it’s important to collect a lot of different dots at the start that you can connect later. Keep learning, expose yourself to a bunch of new ideas and environments.
2. Starting a business might be the last option. Steve provides 11 alternatives that you should try BEFORE quitting your job and following your passion.
3. Always test your ideas. You’ll never know if your idea is going to work, so don’t go ‘all in’ on your first attempt. Build an MVP, test that small prototype, make tweaks according to real data not your own assumptions.
April 16, 2019
Glaveski has written a masterful book, a playbook if you will, for budding entrepreneurs, those looking for some intelligent, effective life hacks, and for people searching to define their purpose.
Employee to Entrepreneur is easy to read, full of insightful anecdotes, and doesn't take itself too seriously, but it packs a punch when it comes to helping you strive for greatness.
It will take you out of your comfort zone and set you on a journey of self-discovery, self-improvement, and will awaken your entrepreneurial spirit. Highly recommended to all!
Employee to Entrepreneur is easy to read, full of insightful anecdotes, and doesn't take itself too seriously, but it packs a punch when it comes to helping you strive for greatness.
It will take you out of your comfort zone and set you on a journey of self-discovery, self-improvement, and will awaken your entrepreneurial spirit. Highly recommended to all!
January 20, 2021
Entrepreneurship, while it is not the right path for everyone, adopting an entrepreneur's mindset will ultimately help you derive purpose from your work and life. As stated in this book, it will encourage you to embrace uncertainty, exploration, and failure as tools for personal growth. To live through the ups and downs of life's journey, adopt strategies for working more efficiently, instead of just more.
January 20, 2021
Employee to Entrepreneur (2018) demonstrates how to transition from the mentality of an employee to that of an entrepreneur.
It shows how you can pursue purpose in your work while avoiding the pitfalls that most first-time entrepreneurs encounter.
With practical strategies for launching and testing your ideas, this exploration of the entrepreneurial mindset proves that anyone can find fulfillment in work and in life when equipped with the right tools and attitude.
It shows how you can pursue purpose in your work while avoiding the pitfalls that most first-time entrepreneurs encounter.
With practical strategies for launching and testing your ideas, this exploration of the entrepreneurial mindset proves that anyone can find fulfillment in work and in life when equipped with the right tools and attitude.
January 21, 2021
Ажилтнаас бизнес эрхлэгч болох үйл явцад эхлээд бэлтгэх нь үр дүн өндөртэй байж болох талаар номлох уг номонд мэдүүштэй, анхаарууштай зүйлс олон ажээ.
Ажилтан байх нь нэг талаар тогтмол орлого, ойлгомжтой ажлын хуваарь зэрэг давуу талыг авчирдаг бол энэ сэтгэхүйгээрээ шууд бизнес эрхлэж эхлэх нь аюулд оруулж магадгүйг бүгд төсөөлж байгаа байх. Иймд аливаа зүйлийг эхлэхээсээ өмнө сэтгэл зүй, ажлах арга барил, санаа нь дээрээ ажлах зэрэг хийх ёстой зүйлүүд байгааг мартаж болохгүй юм байна шүү.
Ажилтан байх нь нэг талаар тогтмол орлого, ойлгомжтой ажлын хуваарь зэрэг давуу талыг авчирдаг бол энэ сэтгэхүйгээрээ шууд бизнес эрхлэж эхлэх нь аюулд оруулж магадгүйг бүгд төсөөлж байгаа байх. Иймд аливаа зүйлийг эхлэхээсээ өмнө сэтгэл зүй, ажлах арга барил, санаа нь дээрээ ажлах зэрэг хийх ёстой зүйлүүд байгааг мартаж болохгүй юм байна шүү.
April 25, 2021
An excellent read that delivers exactly what it says - a guide for employees aspiring to become entrepreneurs. This book goes into detail about practical steps on developing and testing business ideas. There's a lot of content about developing a entrepreneur's mindset which I found really useful and easy to absorb.
April 13, 2026
Life's most rewarding experiences are those that push us beyond our comfort zone, that drive us to answer questions we don't know the answer to, that force us to learn something new, to face adversity and to come out the other side a better version of ourselves.
June 3, 2019
A book about the author touting his own successes, which he repeats ad nauseam.
Practical information makes up a disappointing sliver of the book.
Practical information makes up a disappointing sliver of the book.
November 21, 2023
Decent Book
It’s a decent book on self help, but too many things are discussed without going into depth on any of those stuff.
It’s a decent book on self help, but too many things are discussed without going into depth on any of those stuff.
April 11, 2021
Somewhat depressingly, I think the only thing this book really taught me is that I am not really constituted to be an entrepreneur. Quite entertainingly written, however, of a type of 'become a self-made-person' kind of book, of which there are endless rivers, most of which, including this one, regurgitates a whole lot of mediocre ideas, or more accurately, a whole lot of good ideas in a mediocre way.
But maybe it is just me.
But maybe it is just me.
Did Not Finish
March 23, 2019Very unstructured and felt like I was reading a stream of consciousness writing rather than a clear roadmap of Employee to Entrepreneur.
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