As a small business owner, I was super excited to read this book. Looking for ways to grow my business or even take it into a new direction. There was a lot of insight given and the ability to weave the stories into the lessons of finding passion was truly unique. I found so many life lessons as well as business lessons in this book. However I could see how its not exactly applicable to everyone if you don't connect to her or being someone with a hustle or side hustle of your own.

There are some good sections in this book, but I felt it was not particularly a good guide, more a personal story with the tiniest of nuggets to take away.

Interesting take, I thoroughly enjoyed the various examples and stories. The stories are uplifting and positive. Lots of gems in this book.

Inspiration for unconventional twentysomethings
Wildpreneurs is a great book for students and twenty somethings with ambitions beyond the 9-5. The author weaves her own story - and case studies of others - with business advice, covering everything from financial advice to website design, with a lot of jungle lifestyle anecdotes thrown in. Inspiring and entertaining in equal measure.

Advice for entrepreneurs is folded into Tamara’s cool story of starting a treehouse-style lodge in the Mexican jungle with her parents. I found the entrepreneur advice fairly generic (although she interviews other entrepreneurs with interesting businesses) and would have preferred more details about the challenges of pampering rich people in the jungle (Really? Someone sued because she was upset it turned out to be set in an actual jungle?), but Tamara also includes practical advice about running a business with family members and about dating when you’re an entrepreneur.

Meh, wasn't for me. Her individual story is the most interesting part but it's cut off constantly by the interviews (which I didn't find too insightful) or other semi-related topics which made it hard to get into. For example, there was a long section about making your business green, which of course only applies to a handful of physical-space businesses.

The constant in-and-out of topics and narrative styles made it hard to get into for me so I ended up scanning the sections I wasn't interested in just to get back to Tamara's journey. Also, while it's helpful that there are questions for the reader to answer in the book, they are best suited for just-starting entrepreneurs in my opinion. With that in mind, I'd recommend this book to people more at the beginning of their process than those who've been at it for a while.


Note: I received a free Kindle edition of this book via NetGalley in exchange for the honest review above. I would like to thank NetGalley, the publisher HarperCollins, and the author Tamara Jacobi for the opportunity to do so.

This was one interesting book, quite unlike the others in the field. I liked the personal approach, how Tamara backed up the conclusions she got from her own experience with interviews from people activating in diverse fields. I also liked how you could feel her passion and honesty throughout the book. I would definitely recommend this. It makes you ask yourself important questions and I would give this as a must read to anyone who is thinking about starting something wild.

I found this book to be more on the inspirational rather than practical side, based on the author and her family’s experiences. There are many questions posed for the aspiring wildpreneur to consider, and it can certainly be said that this book was not authored by someone wearing rose-tinted glasses. It is evident that much was sacrificed and some really challenging circumstances were overcome to achieve the dream. Being prepared to adapt and change was a key contributor to the eventual outcome. Success.

Other take outs were that this adventure was built on a dream, not the pursuit of money and that building the right team around you is important (not being a jack-of-all trades), as is taking care yourself.

I found the contributions of the many other wildpreneurs detracted rather than added to the story. These may be considered reassuring and insightful by other readers.

With thanks to #NetGalley, HarperCollins Leadership and the author for my free advanced reader copy to review in exchange for an honest opinion

This book will appeal to anyone looking to start their own dream adventure as an entrepreneur. It is not a 'How to' or a step by step guide, more of an inspirational guide with snippets from a selection of 'wildpreneurs' and self enquiry questions to mull over. The authors story is unusual and not many people will be starting out with the whole family. So not everyone will feel a connection. However the authors story is interesting even though the telling of it is a little disjointed. It is quite a long book but would be a good read for anyone thinking of starting their own business adventure.