The goal: publish a book of stories from 100 entrepreneurs. With $100 and 30 days.
70 entrepreneurs, 35 states, 5 continents, 10 months, & $49 later, The Entrepreneur Story is that book. Click on "Us" to read more.
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My goal is to sell 10,000 copies of The Entrepreneur Story. And trust me– it’s not going to happen by itself.
Here are some of the things I do all day to start making it happen. 
So many people helped with this project, particularly in the very early stages. I appreciate their help so much!
Jon Speer
Timothy Totten
Danielle White
Michael Cianfrani
Yvette Stokes
Tom Butler
Kory Hoopes
Richard Tripp
Jessan Dunn Otis
Ryan Byrd
And of course, the 70 entrepreneurs who donated their stories. As well as others who’ve made such a contribution to this book getting to where it is now! Thanks, everyone.
Tomorrow’s the big launch!
Here’s a behind-the-scenes view on what it’s like for me– getting ready to send the book out to the general public tomorrow, and anticipating seeing how it will go.
Three marketing/blogging gurus, Andy Sernovitz, Chris Brogan, and Seth Godin, have been major inspirations to me as I’ve been planning the marketing campaigns for The Entrepreneur Story.
They all have interesting and effective perspectives on marketing and community building– and do an awesome job making information accessible to all of us via their blogs & books. Thanks, guys!
Just thought I’d show you guys some of the artifacts I’ve been collecting from the project thus far:
I can’t promise all of those will be fascinating to you, but check out the video for more details.
Amazing– we have officially started the Beta Launch!
We had a few test purchases from real, live customers, and everything seems to be working fine.
By the way–props to our e-commerce solution, www.e-junkie.com. Earlier, I emailed the lead developer, Robin, when the server was down, and he sent back a quick reply letting me know they’d be back online soon. Thanks!
The book is only available by invite only until December 26th, as we’re making sure everything is going well before ramping up our marketing efforts.
If you’d like an invite to be one of our beta purchasers (with a $1 off discount code!), email me at carolynn@theentrepreneurstory.com.
And now, time to sleep!
So, you can definitely tell I’m a bootstrapping entrepreneur based on the quality of the video recording. 
Other than that, here is an intro to the project and some of the background on why it started & what we hope the book will accomplish.
Enjoy!
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