Key insights from The Start-up of You - Adapt to the Future, Invest in Yourself, and Transform Your Career

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About the
The Start-Up of You is a guide to how you can leverage strategies used by start-ups in your own being adaptable, building relationships and pursuing breakout opportunities.
In a world where entire industries are being ravaged by global competition and traditional career paths are fast becoming dead-ends, everyone needs to hustle like an entrepreneur.

Who should read this?
- Anyone who wants to understand what the right career is for them and how to achieve it
- Professionals who are considering a career or industry change
- Professionals who want to leverage their network more effectively

About Blinkist’s Key
Blinkist presents powerful, actionable insights from nonfiction in a clear and memorable way. Our format, "blinks," is crafted with mobile in mind, so you can get the most out of your time in line, on the train, or on the go.

In 15 minutes or fewer, brush up on your skills in fields like Business or Entrepreneurship or dip your toes into a novel subject like Psychology, Self-help or Health & Happiness. Blinkist aims to inspire great new knowledge by helping you discover great new books.

Blinkist’s Key Insights were made for your mobile lifestyle and optimized for your Kindle. Nothing you read from us will ever come from an algorithm. We recruit bright, inquisitive readers to craft our blinks so that you get a thoughtfully composed, human-made work that’s heavy on substance and light on fluff.

Genres: Business, Self Help

17 pages, Kindle Edition

First published July 12, 2013

About the author

Blinkist is a book-summarizing subscription service that publishes 15-minute summaries of books in text and audio format.

Reviews

[Andy · Rating 4 out of 5]

Great book by Reid that puts into perspective a fact many of us don't realize - we're all entrepreneurs. We're each building the most important "startup" - our own life. Just as a startup seeks to grow and be profitable and do good for the world and all that Jazz, we as individuals are seeking to build a life that (hopefully) is profitable (unless you want to be homeless), positive, impactful, and meaningful.

The Startup of You takes you on a journey from our earliest ancestors to today and helps frame this interesting and truthful perspective. Nothing 'earth-shattering', but if you didn't think in this manner before, you'll change your perspective on a number of things in your life.

[Tim Shi · Rating 3 out of 5]

The connection of personal development to building startups is kind of loose here. True, a person should have a competitive advanrage, an assessment of risk and a powerful network. But these are more like common characteristics rather than something unique to startups. Thinking yourself as a startup is overrated.

[Ali Asad · Rating 4 out of 5]

The startup of you is a guide for new hustlers. The book focused so much on the process of building team and stakeholders, product and company, sales and profit!

the author shared his story of starting LinkedIn and how he got the inspiration from the previous job experience.

i enjoyed reading it, i recommend it to new hustlers!

[Jennifer · Rating 3 out of 5]

I skimmed this in one day, to see if it would be useful for class. I am not ready to replace my current textbook, Designing your life, but this also seems like a good resource. At the start, I did not like the feel, because it did not feel applicable to all (too entrepreneurship focused even as it said it was not). But I really liked some of the points about networking, and the actions at the end of each chapter.

[Michael Biarnes · Rating 4 out of 5]

Enjoyed learning about the power of "weak connections" to expand our exposure to new opportunities.

[Craig Earnshaw · Rating 3 out of 5]

nice magazine article, not a book

[Rami Adwan · Rating 4 out of 5]

A nice frame for people in the early to mid career stages keen to clarify directions and leverage growth tools.

[Abhishek Jain]

Great read

[Ian]

Great book, insightful view of how our world has changed.

[Patrick]

Recommend for anything in a career, especially a technical one.