From Writer To Book Entrepreneur w/ Niklas Goeke | Four Minute Books

Entrepreneur's Handbook

Inspirational stories plus practical takeaways from the entrepreneurship world.

Today we have with us Niklas Goeke, the founder and CEO of Four Minute Books. It's a collection of over a thousand free summaries available online. They only take 4 minutes to read and consume.

Since 2014, Nik's writing has garnered over 50 million views across a variety of platforms. He has a following of 90,000 email subscribers, 600,000+ social media followers, and over 500,000 monthly readers.

Nik has been published in Business Insider, CNBC, Fast Company, The Next Web, and many others. He's also been featured on Medium (Top Writer in 10+ topics), Quora (Top Writer 2017 & 2018), Pocket, and more.

We hope you enjoy the episode and don't forget to share it with others. You can learn more at:

Our Website:

http//www.entrepreneurshandbook.co.

Nik’s Medium:

https://ngoeke.medium.com/

Nik’s LinkedIn:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/ngoeke/

Nik‘s website:

https://nik.art/

Four Minute Books Website:

https://fourminutebooks.com/

Keynotes:

Introduction (0:00)

The short(ish) version of when it all started (1:41)

Monetizing initially (6:26)

The formula (8:41)

The first two years of doing everything (10:48)

Ownership (13:27)

Being a creator (17:09)

Talking about Blinkist (18:44)

Peer Groups (24:55)

YouTube (31:05)

Future plans (34:36)

Insisting on owning your work (38:40)

Focus (42:36)