The $100 Startup Review

Chris Guillebeau's book The $100 Startup has been out for just over a week. I finally finished it a few days ago and got my post up on Amazon, but I was really excited to read it and highly recommend it.


"In the interests of full disclosure, I received a copy of the $100 Startup in advance, but was so slow reading it because of all the notes I was taking that I’m just now getting to writing my review.

I found this to be a very understandable and approachable guide to starting a microbusiness. There’s no background knowledge assumed or exclusive demographics. The whole book builds on your intentions to provide something worthwhile and your desire to accomplish something independently.

There is very actionable guidance for all stages of starting your own business, from generating your ideas and setting up, to relationship building and marketing up to scaling (or not!) your business operations. I particularly liked the case studies across a variety of industries. There are also worksheets (and additional resources provided online) to work through questions, business plans, product launches and on and on...

Regardless of the stage of your small business, this book has insights waiting to be yours."

Task manager app search

I've been trying to find a good task manager that will sync my phone and my google tasks account. Best case scenario: multiple lists (so I can track projects independently), tags (I like to sort by type of task), deadlines, reminders, recurring tasks and no ads (hate how they slow things down and decrease security). I'm happy to pay a couple bucks if there's a solid free version I can test out. I've been reviewing the options in google play and these are my findings, and personal experience to date...

Edit: View the full page more easily here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/pub?key=0AoQs6J3aWrFPdFUzRWYwT1BZUVNPa25VbXUycXUydUE&single=true&gid=0&output=html