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How long does it take to read The Start-up of You?

Adapt to the Future, Invest in Yourself, and Transform Your Career

Reid Hoffman, Ben Casnocha

The Start-up of You by Reid Hoffman, Ben Casnocha takes about 4 hours 59 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.

About 4 hours 59 minutes

A weekend read

First published 2012. 272 pages, about 74,800 words.

10 days at 30 minutes a day

Estimate based on 275 words per page.

At other speeds

Slow, 150 words a minute 8 hours 19 minutes
Average, 250 words a minute 4 hours 59 minutes
Fast, 400 words a minute 3 hours 7 minutes

The page count is the median across 4 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.

About the book

A blueprint for thriving in your job and building a career by applying the lessons of Silicon Valley's most innovative entrepreneurs. The career escalator is jammed. Unemployment is sky-high. Creative disruption is shaking every industry. Global competition for jobs is fierce. Traditional job security is a thing of the past. Here, LinkedIn cofounder and chairman Reid Hoffman and author Ben Casnocha show how to manage your career as if it were a start-up business: a living, breathing, growing start-up of you. Start-ups--and the entrepreneurs who run them--are nimble. They invest in themselves. They build their professional networks. They take intelligent risks. They make uncertainty and volatility work to their advantage. These are the very same skills professionals need to get ahead today. This book will teach you the best practices of Silicon Valley start-ups, and how to apply these entrepreneurial strategies to your career.

Subjects: Business, Entrepreneurship, Career changes, Business networks, Career development, Secondes carrières

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