I think it could make a lot of money.” It’s always tough, because then it feels like the only reason you’re doing this is to make money. I get lots of people that contact me saying: “Hey, I’ve got this idea for a business. So I really like this idea that you do something first for yourself, and then, you know, suddenly it becomes a business. And after eight years, I’m still solving my own problem… along with thousands of people using my solution. Because I needed something that wasn’t there. You created a company to scratch your own itch. And in 2008 I sold that company, and since then I’ve been writing books, speaking at TED, and working on some new stuff.Įxactly, that’s the kind of story I love. But then friends told friends, and it became the largest seller of independent music on the web, with something like a quarter-million musicians. So I created a little website that, at first was just to sell my music, and then some of my friends’. Nobody would sell your CD for you back in 1998, the old days before Amazon, before all this stuff… But then around that time, I was trying to sell my CD online and there was no good website to do it. I actually bought a house with the money I made touring. I was producing people’s records, going on tour.

How should I start… I was really a professional musician for many years, all the way from the age of 15 until 30, really. Talk with Michael Sliwinski about my recipe for a happy life, giving and taking Date: 2015-08 Download: mp4 or mp3Ĭould you quickly introduce yourself in case somebody doesn’t know what you do? Productive! Magazine | Derek Sivers Derek Sivers Interviews → Productive! Magazine

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