Think Like a Startup : Get Agile and Unleash Your Inner Entrepreneur.

Cover -- Half title page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Contents -- About the author -- Preface -- Part I: Revolution -- CHAPTER 1: A lesson about school -- STEM is not enough -- Time to unlearn -- The history of the present -- Why change hurts -- Incentives shape behaviour -- Hack the system! -- CHAPTER 2: A proxy for happiness -- The education tightrope -- The paperwork -- Formal now or formal later? -- Pull up your roots -- CHAPTER 3: The future is informal -- Discover the entrepreneur within -- Self-reliance needs a comeback -- The pace of change is super-radical -- It's time to just make stuff up again -- The formal institutions really don't get it -- Definitions really matter -- Success is a choice -- You're smarter than you think -- My school report -- CHAPTER 4: The future of work -- Your job is already gone -- An independent future -- The labour escalator -- The hierarchy of human needs revisited -- Ignore your weaknesses -- Strength-finding hacks -- The grade 3 hack -- The 10 per cent rule -- Quit quickly -- Follow your effort -- Economics is always major -- Part II: Revenue -- CHAPTER 5: The truth about money -- Are you being or organising? -- Why ESTEEM matters -- Divide and conquer, economics style -- Learning to do both -- The jobs and growth hoax -- CHAPTER 6: Money isn't money -- Delivering against a future promise -- The three types of money -- 1. Earned money (wages or salary - high probability - low return) -- 2. Invested money (equity and property - medium probability - medium return and risk) -- 3. Invented money (entrepreneurship - highest risk - highest return) -- From ownership to access -- Wages, profits and tax -- CHAPTER 7: The seeds of greatness -- Spent money vs invested money -- Where did it go? The necessities confusion -- Society says spend -- Finance is a game -- The three places money can be stored -- 1. Cash.

2. Property -- 3. Equity -- Where to allocate our dollars -- The 30 per cent split -- It's bigger than you -- CHAPTER 8: The future of money -- The company isn't real -- The 'turnaround' hoax -- The future value equation -- Unions - the false friend -- CHAPTER 9: The best way to invest money -- Time and money - the two investments we make -- The basics are beautiful -- The main challenges to investing -- 1. PROBABILITY -- 2. PRICE -- 3. PATIENCE -- Mistaking gambling for investing -- The success bias -- What makes investments go up in value -- INTRODUCTION TO INDEX INVESTING -- INTRODUCTION TO RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY INVESTING -- Financial independence -- The financial wealth success ratio -- A STORY ABOUT THE STARS -- A STORY ABOUT THE RICH -- HOW TO HACK YOUR RATIO -- KNOW YOUR RATIO -- OTHER ADVANTAGES OF THE WEALTH EQUATION -- How to build passive income -- Capital always wins -- Part III: Reinvention -- CHAPTER 10: Portfolio living -- How to become … anything -- The 10-meeting method -- Prove it! -- The most valuable thing I've ever done -- The portfolio of you -- You are an entrepreneur - right now -- Venn living -- Speed, momentum and success -- The feedback loop -- CHAPTER 11: Freelancing is rad -- A win-win solution -- You're worth more than you think - freelance pricing -- Portfolio theory and the projecteers -- The greatest freelance hack of all time -- CHAPTER 12: Upskilling -- Make the market (people) love you -- Become a one percenter -- Find human filters -- The impact of technology, not how it works -- The no-excuse list - how to learn anything for free and change your life -- Privileged Johnny vs Hardworking Mary -- The ultimate pitch method - how to sell anything to anyone -- Tesla -- Ikea -- Driverless cars -- Uber -- CHAPTER 13: Instant startup entrepreneur -- All or nothing is terrible advice -- Side projects and the MVP.

Become an entrepreneur - today -- Run an event -- Have a garage sale -- Set up an ebay store -- Start a meetup group -- Sell your advice -- Make something and sell it -- Arbitrage goods -- Do commission-only sales -- Make a smartphone app -- Do a crowdfunding campaign -- Your personal brand -- CHAPTER 14: DNA is DESTINY -- entrepreneur -- What to teach your kids -- Philosophy is greater than tactics -- The truth about wealth -- Notes -- EULA.

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