the picture above is halley suitt tucker, who is writing a book. about a startup. several startups, in fact. the book is itself a startup because halley is crowdfunding its publication on kickstarter. my friend jeff shared a link to halley's kickstarter page. I liked the premise of the book and the thematically appropriate nature of its being, so I kicked in. it's easy - more on that below.
halley wants her work to entertain and inspire:
There are just not enough entrepreneurs starting companies and creating jobs. Especially women entrepreneurs. I want to change that.
Founders Less Than Three is a funny, sexy novel about a Boston-based accelerator where 5 female founders and 5 male founders and their teams fight it out to make their start-up company the next big thing. It's a book with solid entrepreneurial advice, adventures, laughs, love and all the twists and turns starting a business involves, as they race towards their demo day, when the teams show off their start-up ideas and see who gets the best deal.
I'm a writer, a blogger, an entrepreneur and I've been the CEO of a start-up company in Boston. I loved hiring people and handing out paychecks. I love the culture of "try anything, try everything ... now, try again."
I especially want more women to become entrepreneurs because I think they are well suited to the unpredictable path a new business usually takes. We need lots more women founding companies and creating lots of new jobs. Of course, I want my book to inspire female and male entrepreneurs alike and make them all say, "I can do that!"
picture this: you're at a party. or at work not working. you are talking with other people. the subject? naturally, it is the latest based-on-a-true-story metaphysical tell-all bodice-ripping how-to insert-hyhentated-keywaord-here sensation from boston's own halley suitt tucker. and you oh-so-casually remark, "yeah, I was an early investor in that." okay, it won't get you a private island. but it will get you admiring looks from other people, and isn't the approbation of your peers what we're all looking for anyway?
take that $5 or $10 that's burning a small hole in your pocket and make a big difference. you heard the lady - you're financing a revolution!
here's a widget showing our progress! you can click on it to help out, too. you can see a fun video where halley describes the book and the project that for reasons known only to kickstarter refused to embed in this post so I saved it for the very end...