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The 7 Day Startup: You Don't Learn Until You Launch Kindle Edition
In The 7 Day Startup, Dan Norris, author and founder of wpcurve.com, shows us exactly how he built a cashflowing small business startup from scratch in 7 days (and has since grown it to over $400,000 in annual recurring revenue in a few short years).
What you'll learn in The 7 Day Startup
- Why validation isn’t the answer
- How to evaluate your small business startup idea
- How to choose a business name, fast
- How to build a website in 1 day for under $100
- 10 proven ways to market a business quickly
And much, much more…
Who this book is for
- Small Business Founders
- Entrepreneurs (and Wantrepreneurs)
- Freelancers and Agencies
- Bootstrappers
Additional resources included in The 7 Day Startup to help you build your startup
- Idea evaluation spreadsheet
- Business name checklist
- Growth tracking spreadsheet
- Marketing idea checklist for your small business startup
- List of over 100 startup and new business resources
- LanguageEnglish
- Publication dateSeptember 26, 2014
- File size8.3 MB
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Editorial Reviews
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"This book is incredible. This is hands down the best business book I've ever read." - Adam Smith
"Changed my entire perspective on startups." - Martin Pavion
"If you haven't had a chance to read The 7 Day Startup yet...Do it. Now. Don't Sleep." - Jonathan Heston
"[The 7 Day Startup] is the long island ice tea of business books - goes down fast and easy, but hits you hard when it's finished." - Terry Lin
"Solid reading and no BS." - Clint Maher
"Got a business idea? The 7 Day Startup by Dan Norris will take you from wantrepreneur to entrepreneur." - Foundr Magazine
"You'll see that much of what you thought about building a startup simply isn't true. Through Dan, you'll quickly see that launching a profitable startup doesn't take years, or even months. It can be done in just 7 days." - Mike Taber
"Kudos to Dan for talking about his entrepreneurial journey in the most transparent way I've ever seen. This is a highly recommended book for anyone who is an Entrepreneur at heart and thinking about starting their first or even next venture!" - Janek Mehta
"Essential reading for anyone starting a business." - Ed Stutzman
"If you're a wantrepreneur (or even an entrepreneur) you MUST read this book." - Eric A. Conley
"The 7 Day Startup is the most complete resource for avoiding startup traps." - Till Carlos
"[The 7 Day Startup] is a Lean + Mean approach to Entrepreneurship." - S. Sarker
About the Author
Product details
- ASIN : B00NZFKB8S
- Publisher : (September 26, 2014)
- Publication date : September 26, 2014
- Language : English
- File size : 8.3 MB
- Simultaneous device usage : Unlimited
- Text-to-Speech : Enabled
- Screen Reader : Supported
- Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
- X-Ray : Enabled
- Word Wise : Enabled
- Print length : 206 pages
- Best Sellers Rank: #270,455 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- #167 in Startups
- #169 in Small Business (Kindle Store)
- #842 in Small Business (Books)
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About the author

Dan Norris is a serial entrepreneur, award-winning content marketer, international speaker and the author of 3 books, The 7 Day Startup, Content Machine and Operation Brewery.
In June 2013 after failing at entrepreneurship for 7 years, he founded wpcurve.com, a worldwide team of WordPress developers, providing unlimited small fixes and support, 24 / 7 for a low monthly fee. After becoming profitable in 23 days, WP Curve grew to a team of 40, servicing thousands of customers and passed an annual run rate of over $1m USD using Content Marketing alone.
The 7 Day Startup which became a top 10 bestseller in 3 Amazon categories has been translated into 5 languages and inspired thousands of entrepreneurs around the world to launch their business.
Dan’s second book, Content Machine documents how to create a 7 figure content strategy and scale it with automation, delegation, and a content team.
In 2016 Dan built the Black Hops Brewery with his mates, and released a story about their journey called Operation Brewery.
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- Reviewed in the United States on January 6, 2015An awesome book on Entrepreneurship and importance of shipping your new product. The book stresses on the importance of launching in 7 days. We all might wonder what we can launch in 7 days. But this book gives a step by step approach on what achievable in 7 days.
My next business ideas I am going to experiment with the approaches specified in this book. The main point that is stressed in this book is – “You don’t learn until you launch.”
The author explains in detail his experiments in starting different business and the lessons in a succinct way.
His success in creating WP Curve (a wordpress support service) is explained in depth.
What is a startup ? - A startup has – a. High impact potential b. High levels of innovation c. High levels of uncertainty.
A startup has a high impact potential and high levels of innovation and has ability to change the world.
Idea, Execution and Hustle – The goal of this book is to get you from wantrepreneur (someone who wants to be an entrepreneur) to entrepreneur. Moving from just having an idea to a startup.
Idea – The book stresses on the importance of idea, but it is important to move from idea stage to execution.
Execution – Once there is a idea with good merit, it needs to be executed well.
Hustle – Hustle is relentlessly pursuing what needs to be done at the time. Hustle is about spending your time on the things that are most likely to bring you customers.
This book is all about helping you to launch your business in seven days.
Why 7 days ? - The ability to learn from real data is why the 7 day startup works. You remove all assumptions and focus on launching in 7 days.
It is important to avoid failed validation techniques. The book elaborates on the different failed validation techniques that you must avoid.
Another reason why it is 7 days, is that the working would be more efficient when we have a specific deadline to deliver.
Many people might wonder how it is possible to launch in 7 days. Launching in 7 days requires a mindset shift and you won’t build something that you don’t know what people want.
Once you aim for a weak, you will start to question every assumption and figure out a way to make it happen.
The steps or actions to be taken on each of the days to be performed is explained in depth. They are:
Day One – The 9 Elements of a great bootstrapped business idea. This section elaborates on the various techniques in choosing the right idea for execution. Your idea should have a scalable business model, enjoyable daily tasks, operates profitably, asset that can be sold, has market potential and ability to launch quickly.
Task – Brainstorm a bunch of ideas and evaluate them against the checklist.
Day Two – WTF is an MVP ? This section is about defining your Minimum Viable Product that is your product or service idea, that can be launched within one week. The author gives good examples of products and their MVP. Basically following are the various things to consider: a. How can you offer a product or service to real customers?; b. How will you get them to pay you after 7 days?; c. How close your MVP to the final product?;d. How can you make your offer as real as possible for real customer.
Day Three – Choose a Business Name – This section elaborates on choosing the right and appropriate business name.
Day Four – Build a Website in One Day for under $100. Now that we have an idea and business name, we need a website to put the message across to the world. Basically it is all about having a landing page and start communicating with your customers and see how they respond. This section elaborates on how to you Wordpress to achieve this.
Day Five – 10 ways to Market Your Business – How do you get in front of your customers? It is about marketing your product in front of qualified buyers. There are different techniques on marketing new products is explained in depth.
Day Six – Set Targets – The point of launching a business quickly is that you could get real data from real customers. The main suggestion is to focus on One Metric That Matters (OMTM) at different stages in your business.
Day Seven – Launch – Launch is the day you enter into period of real data collection and running a real business with paying customers. There are well defined steps to be performed on the launch day to make your product available to your customers. (Ex : Emailing people about your product, Updates in social networks etc)
Once you have done the launching in 7 days, then it is all about refining your business model. Now that you have launched, you need to hustle up to real paying customers and check whether they are paying and referring others. Then you need to grow your business that is fundamentally profitable.
Finally the book covers 14 important business rules to live by:
Test every assumption
Solve problems as they arise OR Don’t solve problems that is not there.
Do what you say You will do
Benchmark against the Best
Learn from others and yourself
Outlearn your competition
Always consider how your business looks without you
Look for source of Momentum
Manage Motivation
Cull Difficult Customers
Focus on Retention
Avoid short term thinking
Focus on product
Love your product
Overall I find this book to be a different perspective about startup. I planned to launch few of my ideas based on the approach explained in this book.
Final lesson is that we must listen to our customers, make a great product, do one thing well and learn to say “no”. Constantly innovate and improve the product. Move quicker and learn faster than your competition. Create something new, create something valuable and have fun.
- Reviewed in the United States on September 29, 2014I found out about this book the 7 Day Startup through Dan Norris' website WP Curve. Initially I thought the book was thin on specifics at the beginning, and on some of the chapters, there were more gems I gleaned as I read further. One of the lesson I found from the author's experience is that some business cannot scale and is difficult to be profitable even though the revenue it there. If the business numbers don't work, the business won't work.
The author also include a summary of different types of businesses and criteria of these business types; how well they scale, the relative profit margins, whether the business can run without the owner hands on and whether an asset is created that can later be sold.
For some business it will be difficult if not impossible to launch in 7 days but it does encourage anyone who want to be an entrepreneur to challenge oneself to cut out all unnecessary tasks or action, and launch with a minimum viable product or service. That way, feedback from the initial customer is valuable. There are good points in the book for new and existing entrepreneurs to think about, for example how will the business be if it is 5 times the size and others too.
- Reviewed in the United States on October 6, 2014I saw this book mentioned on the author, Dan Norris', blog.
I was reading Dan's blog posts and finding them to be tremendously insightful, valuable and BS-free. So I saw this book was on promo and downloaded it.
I read it over the course of a few nights and here's what really struck me about it: Dan chops up a lot of the black and white thinking that plagues the startup/online entrepreneur community. He makes useful distinctions regarding the validation concept that I'm already implementing in my business. I'm very much guilty of building a bunch of stuff before a single customer hands me money. After reading this it kind of dawned on me that these activities are a form of creative laziness and wishful thinking.
In addition to experience-based, no BS guidelines for launching an online business, Dan makes a compelling case for why recurring revenue businesses are superior to one-off sales models. This is also something I was able to implement right away to recraft an offer for a productized service I sell to include a recurring revenue component.
I also saw some parallels between Dan's thinking and Eben Pagan's approach. Specifically, when it comes to naming your business and setting up processes and systems so that the business can operate without you as an indispensable cog. Which also looks to the future because this makes a business easier to sell.
The book is pretty short but I wasn't disappointed by the length at all. It included some stories of actual entrepreneurs implementing these methods successfully and it wasn't full of opiate-like simplifications like the 4 hour workweek or endless theorization like the Lean Startup. Both good books but what I'm saying is Dan cuts through the BS and basically challenges the reader to ship a decent MVP and let the reaction drive next actions.
I wholeheartedly recommend this book. It's a solid, quick and enjoyable read. And the advice is very practical.
Top reviews from other countries
- Christian E.Reviewed in Germany on July 17, 2021
5.0 out of 5 stars Valuable for 2nd round founders
Very valuable insights into startup challenges. Norris provided proper solutions and handon advice I did not think about yet as founder.
- MarkReviewed in Canada on June 10, 2019
5.0 out of 5 stars Amazing!!
Extremely informative book from start to finish. I read it in only two days, and I kid you not it was hard to put down. Ive had many different businesses in the past, many struggles from business names to advertising to general awareness. This book touched on every single area that I struggled with ever in business. Best advise and links also if preferred in the book. Def a book ALL entrepreneurs should read no matter what stage they are at. 100% Recommended.
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AlexandreReviewed in Brazil on December 17, 2018
5.0 out of 5 stars Direto ao ponto
Sem muita teoria chata. Fala diretamente como o autor :
1. Obteve a ideia
2. Testou de forma super rápida e com baixo custo
3. Escalou, contratou pessoas e obteve bons ganhos com o projeto
Cada capítulo é prático e vai te ajudar a acabar com a teoria do empreendedorismo e colocar a mão na massa.
- Yann B.Reviewed in France on May 31, 2020
5.0 out of 5 stars No theory, no BS, no clichés, just actionable examples.
We don't hear a lot about bootstrapping in the press, most news coverage is about VC-backed startup, etc. This another point of view for novice (or less novice) entrepreneurs who want to start a business right away with minimal time and money investment. Excellent read!
- SATISH DASIReviewed in India on November 16, 2017
5.0 out of 5 stars The push needed to get started!
Just the book you need with detailed steps to go from wantreprenuer to entrepreneur. Practical tips and sound wisdom combine to make it a good book. Can finish in one go and start implementing in the next go.