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Change your job to change your life.

Are you tired of the grind of the 9-to-5 job and dreaming of professional satisfaction on your own terms? You can quit the rat race and start up on your own - and you don't need an MBA or a huge investment to…

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Prolonged planning has killed more startups than actual failure ever could. Planning allows us to pre-judge our own ideas in a vacuum, fuels our fear of failure, and delays action until it’s too late. That’s why I love the ideas in this book—it removes those barriers and gives aspiring entrepreneurs a simple, actionable framework for moving from idea to execution quickly.

I teach entrepreneurship, and one of the biggest challenges I see isn’t a lack of ideas—it’s the lack of action. Some hesitate because they don’t know where to start, others because they fear stepping into the real world,…

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