Employee to Entrepreneur How to Earn Your Freedom and Do Work that Matters

Make the leap and become an entrepreneur today

Are you living for the weekend? Are you dissatisfied at work? Are you itching to do something that is important to you? How can you avoid the pitfalls that many first-time entrepreneurs have fallen into? How do you explore whether entrepreneurship is right for you without giving up your day job? Employee to Entrepreneur is your guide to leaving your job behind and building something for yourself.

Author and employee-turned-entrepreneur Steve Glaveski, shows you how to navigate the challenges, find the entrepreneurial success that is right for you and become a better person along the way. Employee to Entrepreneur combines storytelling with a step-by-step framework to teach you how to effectively explore and leverage entrepreneurship to gain freedom, fulfillment and financial security. 

• understand what you want to do by first understanding yourself
• explore if entrepreneurship is right for you without giving up your day job
• avoid the common pitfalls faced by first-time entrepreneurs
• fund, test and prioritise your ideas in a fast and cost-effective way
• develop the mindset to succeed in your business.

If you’re ready to leave your cushy employee life behind and build a business and a life you believe in, reading this essential guidebook is your first step to making it happen. 

STEVE GLAVESKI is on a mission to unlock the latent talent of people across the globe so that they can create more impact for humanity and lead more fulfilling lives. He is the co-founder and CEO of Collective Campus, an innovation accelerator with offices in Australia and Singapore and clients all over the world. He has worked for the likes of EY, KPMG and Macquarie Bank, founded several businesses, hosts the award winning Future Squared podcast and is a best-selling author.

About the author xi

Acknowledgements xiii

Preface xvii

1 The future is here 1

2 Collecting the dots 19

3 Finding your why 43

4 Embracing your what 59

5 An entrepreneurial mindset 101

6 Taking action 129

7 Knowing your how 139

8 Testing your ideas 169

9 Strengths and weaknesses 213

10 10× your output 219

11 Power up! 251

Final thoughts 263

Index 267

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