Start Up Fever: How Crowdfunding Will Rebuild the American Dream
by Austin Lane Muhs
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LanguageEN
ISBN
9780986275814
Description
Lets face it... The American dream is having a mid life crisis! People are hungry for meaningful vocations, and luckily Crowdfunding has swooped in to save the day. For those looking to make the most out of the Crowdfund...Lets face it... The American dream is having a mid life crisis! People are hungry for meaningful vocations, and luckily Crowdfunding has swooped in to save the day. For those looking to make the most out of the Crowdfunding wave a better time has never been upon us. Crowdfunding can allow you to create your dream vocation out of thin air. Yet as with anything long lasting, preparation is key. Start Up Fever is a book to get you prepared for the upcoming sea change in entrepreneurial America. In a society where anyone can tell you that meaningful careers are hard to find, family units lack harmony, and escapism through drugs alcohol and antidepressants is at an all time high -by default we can assume that the business culture has something to do with the problem. While many books address the How-To's and D.I.Y portions of Crowdfunding -- Start Up Fever takes it a step further by connecting the dots between Crowdfunding and cultural evolution. The book also shows modern examples of lean-bootstrapped-start-up-models that can defy the odds, and succeed with little to no money down. Business plans the author himself put into practice due to his own lack of meaningful financing in the pre-Crowdfunding era. If modern businesses are going to survive the massive amount of disruptive technologies entering the marketplace (a good thing), these new ventures must have a built in sense of morality, virtuosity, and perpetual change. Start Up Fever shows how psychologically a fundamental change in the economy has already taken place, and how you can use this momental phase shift to your advantage. Start Up Fever, follows Austin Muhs on his journey from middle class disenfranchisement, to vocational enrichment -- exploring the who, what, and why along the way. Start Up Fever asks the question... If working will generally consume at least a third of our adult lives, then why not attempt to use the most innovative entrepreneurial time in history to its fullest? In this age there is tr