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008: The Co-Op Business Model: Share Whatever You've Got by Derek Sivers
Optimal Work Daily - Career, Productivity & Entrepreneurship
English - December 14, 2016 08:00 - 7 minutes - 6.75 MB - ★★★★★ - 181 ratingsEntrepreneurship Business Marketing best blog business daily day design ebook entrepreneur entrepreneurship finance Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Derek Sivers shares real life examples of how his money was made through sharing value. Episode 8: The Co-Op Business Model: Share Whatever You've Got by Derek Sivers (Provide Value to Escape the Rat Race Marketplace). Originally a professional musician and circus clown, Derek Sivers created CD Baby in 1998. It became the largest seller of independent music online, with $100M in sales for 150,000 musicians. In 2008, Derek sold CD Baby for $22M, giving the proceeds to a charitable trust for music education. He is a frequent speaker at the TED Conference, with over 5 million views of his talks. Since 2011 he has published 34 books, including “Anything You Want” which shot to #1 on all of its Amazon categories. The original post is located here: and !