Startup to Sold: How I Built My Side Hustle into a Multimillion-Dollar Business

by Chuck Temple

Overview

The Raw, Nonglamorous, Messy Truth & Stuff You're Not Going to Learn in Business School about Growing an Industry-Leading Company—Without Any Debt

In Startup to Sold, Chuck Temple leads you through his journey of going from a broke college graduate with no business education or experience to the successful owner of an industry-leading, multimillion-dollar company. You'll follow Temple as he relates—with an approachable humor and honesty—his path to creating, growing, and finally selling his startup company.

Balancing the lessons he learned in navigating business decisions with insights into his own personal growth on the entrepreneurial odyssey, Temple will help you discover how to advance from concept to company. From the small apartment where he fulfilled his first client's order to the four thriving stores he was managing just before his company was acquired, Temple distills the useful tips, lessons learned, game-changing resources, and engaging anecdotes from his journey to help you on yours.

For first-time entrepreneurs and aspiring business owners, Startup to Sold is an accessible, valuable tool that highlights the realities of what it takes to achieve entrepreneurial success.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940185896860
Publisher:	An Inc. Original
Publication date:	03/07/2023
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

Chuck Temple is a highly successful entrepreneur that has founded three million-dollar industry-leading companies. Started on a shoestring and with no additional funding, the first of these companies, DVD Your Memories, became one of the largest and most successful personal media transfer companies in the US.
By the time DVD Your Memories was acquired in 2012, the multimillion-dollar company had twenty-seven full-time employees with four offices in two different states.

Having begun his entrepreneurial path with no formal business education, Chuck received his MBA from UC Davis with a focus on entrepreneurship in 2016, the same year he won first place in the prestigious Big Bang! Business Competition.

Chuck, along with his business competition partner, founded the Electric Scooter Guide in 2019, which became the world’s leading resource for the personal electric scooter market within a year. While Chuck successfully exited the Electric Scooter Guide in 2022, he continues to be recognized on the street as an influencer due to the hundreds of YouTube videos and live shows he and the Electric Scooter Guide team created.

Chuck currently resides in the San Francisco Bay Area with his wife and young son. He currently teaches go-to-market strategy for UC Berkeley Extension and consults for small- to mid-sized companies. When not teaching or consulting, you can find him at the local parks playing with his son or running a pickleball ball club.