Starting Up A Business? He's Addicted. He's Afflicted. And He Wants You To Be, Too. (With Video)

Serial entrepreneur Ryan Duques—who has started more than a half dozen businesses, who is a volunteer for multiple boards and commissions in his hometown of Madison, and who is a dedicated family man with two young girls at home—recently added one more thing to his list of things to do. And that was to write a book about how to start up a business.

And so, on a series of flights while en route to a conference, he banged out a book on his netbook. He cleaned it up, sent it off to his editor, and got it published. It’s now available in book stores, online, and is the subject of a thriving  Facebook page where Duques is trading ideas with other entrepreneurs.

That’s the kind of can-do, get-it-done-now attitude that is an integral part of Duques success.  He's passionate about the topic and clearly he is an expert. He studied business in college. When just a teenager, he was co-founder and co-publisher of a newspaper publishing house. And he currently oversees three start-ups, including SavingsClique.com, the focus of 37 Days to Launch; An entrepreneur’s story about starting a business in 37 days.

Available in hard copy at and online at Amazon.com, the book is a slim and to-the-point exploration of how to start up a solid, successful business, quickly. Duques’ current strategy includes;

• Brainstorm often
• Execute quickly
• Kill bad ideas fast
• Push good ideas forward through smart leverage

 “It’s only seventy pages, you can read it in a couple of hours,” he says.

To those who might be looking for a job, whether they are just graduating from college or nearing retirement age, Duques says there has never been a better time to start a business. Disruption in the job market has resulted in many opportunities and networking options, online and off, mean that those who start up a business can access support in many forms.

Duques said he started writing the book as a way to reflect upon his latest success, SavingsClique, which was started up quickly. “I was asking myself, how did we make decisions, and were they good decisions?”

On a flight to a conference in Florida, he wrote most of the book. “It was fun to go back and remember,” he said. He also described it as a sort of emotional release and a way to grow. “You also remember your mistakes,” he said.

He said his little girls, Alexandrine and Analise, were also an inspiration for writing a book.

“I have these two little girls,” he said. “Someday they might come across this paperback book and say, ‘Oh, that’s what my dad was up to.’ It might be fun for them to have a sense of what I was doing and why I was doing it.”

So the book is a sort of legacy for his children?  He laughs. “That’s too big of a word,” he says. “But, at least, perhaps it will be a good memory for them.”