Late Summer Book Review

I just finished my summer classes last week and am finally able to read some books that I have been wanting to read for sometime now. The first book of my unrequired reading was, "Lucky or Smart...The secrets of an entrepreneuerial life" written by Bo Peabody the co-founder of Tripod.

This book was interesting for a couple of reasons; the layout of the book was very smooth and the chapters were very short. This book is more motivation than anything else, which if thats what your looking for then ts a good selection. I was able to read the book in about an hour. I bought the book on amazon.com for a few bucks, the cover price was 13.95 so by paying only a couple of dollars I didn't feel short changed like I do walking out of Starbucks in the morning.

The book was well written and a nice change of diction from those wordy and over complicated textbooks I had been using all summer. If you are interested in business and are pursuing a degree in the field I would recommend reading this book just to get a different perspective on the business world from what the textbooks teach.

Textbooks in my view are written to cater to the corporate sector and not for the entrepreneur. This is really not that surprising since most books receive some sort of funding from major corporations to include their name, logo, case study, etc.

This book was somwhat autobigraphical in nature although Bo does share some practical advice for the reader. I picked up on many of the same things that Bo had encountered as a young entrepreneur. Your too young to own a business, get a corporate job and climb the ladder and come talk to me in 30 years.

I would rate this book on a scale from 1 to 5...

3

I won't go into any more because I want you to read the book not this blog...

Tomorrow, "The Big Moo"

Collegiate Entrepreneurs

I have a always been the type of person to be very independent and do things on my own when it comes to school, life, business and anything else. Now I am a senior at the University of South Florida and am getting to the point where I have to make a decision what to do after I gradute.

Options:

Get my MBA
Start my own business that I have been working on for the last year
Get a corporate job (not likely)

I have found it difficult for college age individuals to be taken seriously with investors and even parents. They think that your too young to know what your doing and that you should just finish college and get a job, you know the old American dream, working 9 to5 at a job you hate, people you can't stand and managers who have less college background and have worked there way up from mail clerk to CEO but they have dedicated their lives to the corporation.

I have reached a point where I don't want to get into one of those "office" jobs and end up like the people on the T.V show "the office" where there lives are so boring that its funny to watch on television but relize that you never want to end up like that.

I would like to get the attention of any college age indivduals that feel like me and that might want to share ideas and other ways they have gotten past these roadblocks. It's difficult to balance school and developing a business plan and meeting with investors but I'm hoping that I will be able to acheive my ultimate goal by the time I graduate and so that I have a solid game plan before I have to start making Student Loan payments.