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mehreenyyy's review
5.0
An amazingly thorough book and a must read for anyone who is out to start their own business! I am not business minded whatsoever and still found it fascinating as well as incredibly practical and useful. Nafisa is able to outline all the necessary steps for starting a business as well as how to make sure it survives. Loved the intertwining of Islamic principles too! This isn’t a #girlboss book - it’s a book for anyone and everyone in business, would highly highly recommend.
badoit90's review
3.0
3.5 Stars // Part self-promotion, part solid business advice
Nafisa Bakkar is the founder and CEO of Amaliah, a media platform for Muslim Women based in the UK. In this book, she runs us through the process of starting your own business, making money from it and facing the challenges of being a founder, especially one coming from an ethnic or religious minority.
I liked this one for the most part - her tips are actionable and the book feels very concise for its length. It’s also the first business book I came across that’s fairly humble in the goal it wants you to achieve: Whereas most other non-fiction works of this kind pep you up to go on and invent the new Apple, ‘How to make money’ is aiming for a way more realistic and achievable ‘100k’ approach first and foremost. It paints a realistic picture of what it means to achieve this goal alone and doesn’t sugarcoat the act of founding a start-up or business to you.
What really started to grind on me though is the amount of times, Bakkar mentions her own company throughout the book. I absolutely appreciate the noble idea and concept behind Amaliah, but the author mentions the companies name way too often, to the point where the whole book just feels like self-promotion after a while. She gives voice to other founders throughout, which definitely help to break up the books structure, as otherwise it would have felt way too self-centred.
Overall, a solid book of business advice especially tailored to people with humble and realistic goals for their (first) business in mind.
Nafisa Bakkar is the founder and CEO of Amaliah, a media platform for Muslim Women based in the UK. In this book, she runs us through the process of starting your own business, making money from it and facing the challenges of being a founder, especially one coming from an ethnic or religious minority.
I liked this one for the most part - her tips are actionable and the book feels very concise for its length. It’s also the first business book I came across that’s fairly humble in the goal it wants you to achieve: Whereas most other non-fiction works of this kind pep you up to go on and invent the new Apple, ‘How to make money’ is aiming for a way more realistic and achievable ‘100k’ approach first and foremost. It paints a realistic picture of what it means to achieve this goal alone and doesn’t sugarcoat the act of founding a start-up or business to you.
What really started to grind on me though is the amount of times, Bakkar mentions her own company throughout the book. I absolutely appreciate the noble idea and concept behind Amaliah, but the author mentions the companies name way too often, to the point where the whole book just feels like self-promotion after a while. She gives voice to other founders throughout, which definitely help to break up the books structure, as otherwise it would have felt way too self-centred.
Overall, a solid book of business advice especially tailored to people with humble and realistic goals for their (first) business in mind.
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