Hack the Entrepreneur - Derek Sivers

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How to Find Your Unfair Advantage. An interview with Derek Sivers by Jon Nastor of HTE.

My guest today is a musician, programmer, writer, speaker, introvert, and entrepreneur. My guest started out as a professional musician. Then he wanted a way to sell his own CDs on the internet, but the means to do this didn’t exist. So his entrepreneurial spirit took over and he decided to create a website to sell his own music Ñ then his friends music, then his friends friends were asking, and CD Baby was born. CD Baby went on to become the largest online seller of independent music and created $100 million in sales for 150,000 musicians. My guest sold the company in 2008 for $22 million and gave the proceeds to a charitable trust for music education. He has published 34 books,…from hacktheentrepreneur.com

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