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Author
Publisher
Portfolio/Penquin
Pub. Date
©2013.
Language
English
Description
"Twitter seems like a perfect start-up success story. In barely six years, a small group of young, ambitious programmers in Silicon Valley built an $11.5 billion business out of the ashes of a failed podcasting company. Today Twitter boasts more than 200 million active users and has affected business, politics, media, and other fields in innumerable ways. Now Nick Bilton of the New York Times takes readers behind the scenes with a narrative that shows...
Author
Publisher
Portfolio Penguin
Pub. Date
c2013.
Language
English
Description
"The riveting, untold story of the men who are transforming global energy. In five years, the United States has seen a historic burst of oil and natural gas production, easing our insatiable hunger for energy. A new drilling process called fracking has made us the world's fastest growing energy power, on track to pass Saudi Arabia by 2020. But despite headlines and controversy, no previous book has shown how the revolution really happened. The Frackers...
Author
Publisher
Portfolio/Penguin
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Silicon Valley icon and bestselling author Guy Kawasaki shares the unlikely stories of his life and the lessons we can draw from them. Guy Kawasaki has been a fixture in the tech world since he was part of Apple's original Macintosh team in the 1980s. He's widely respected as a source of wisdom about entrepreneurship, venture capital, marketing, and business evangelism, which he's shared in bestselling books such as The Art of the Start and Enchantment....
Author
Publisher
MCD/Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
The story of The Hundreds and the precepts that made it an iconic streetwear brand by Bobby Hundreds himself Streetwear occupies that rarefied space where genuine "cool" coexists with big business; where a star designer might work concurrently with Nike, a tattoo artist, Louis Vuitton, and a skateboard company. It's the ubiquitous style of dress comprising hoodies, sneakers, and T-shirts. In the beginning, a few brands defined this style; fewer still...
Author
Publisher
Merrifield Garden Center
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
The real life story of a man who's so clearly focused on creating opportunity for others and himself that there's simply no way that he could fail. Every setback was merely another challenge. His life, a case study that shows that no matter who you are, no matter where you're from, no matter what folks think, it's up to you to respond to life, be humbled by nature and create the life of your dreams. -- back cover.
Author
Publisher
Wiley
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Memoirs of an entrepreneur Ever wonder how a startup comes together-the people, places, skills, failures, and hustle that make it a real business? This is the story of David and David, two entrepreneurs with lots of energy and less of a roadmap than you might think. In 1993, David Cohen and David Brown founded their first company, Pinpoint Technologies, which grew from a basement startup to a successful multinational company with $50 million in annual...
Author
Publisher
Avid Reader Press, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, LLC
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"From the finance editor of The New York Times, an examination of Bill Gates--one of the most powerful, fascinating, and contradictory figures of the past four decades--and an eye-opening exploration of our national fixation on billionaires. Few billionaires have been in the public eye for as long, and in as many guises, as Bill Gates. At first heralded as a tech visionary, the Microsoft cofounder next morphed into a ruthless capitalist, only to change...
Author
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"This book will examine the investments and philosophies of Warren Buffett through an entrepreneurship lens. While there are many books analyzing Buffett's investments, philosophies, and beyond, none quite focus on the entrepreneurial aspects of his work. It will draw on his personal statements, shareholder letters, books, interviews with investors and authors of Buffett books, interviews with finance professionals, and the author's analysis of the...
Author
Language
English
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Description
LESSONS FROM A BOSS-LEVEL DISRUPTOR AND GAMING LEGEND Reggie Fils-Aim�e, retired President and Chief Operating Officer of Nintendo of America Inc., shares leadership lessons and inspiring stories from his unlikely rise to the top. Although he's best known as Nintendo's iconic President of the Americas-immortalized for opening Nintendo's 2004 E3 presentation with, "My name is Reggie, I'm about kicking ass, I'm about taking names, and we're about...
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
In 1948, Ed Stack's father, Richard, started Dick's Bait and Tackle in Binghamton, New York, with $300 borrowed from his grandmother. A few years later, Dick expanded to a second location. In 1984, Ed bought the two stores from his father. Today DICK's Sporting Goods is the largest sporting goods retailer in the country with over 800 locations and close to $9 billion in sales. It's How We Play the Game tells the absorbing story of a complicated founder...
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Series
Publisher
Little Bigfoot, an imprint of Sasquatch Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"A gorgeously illustrated children's biography of Bill Gates, from his childhood through his days at Microsoft. This is the second book in Little Bigfoot's new Growing to Greatness series on notable people from the Pacific Northwest"-- Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"A leadership and career manifesto told through the narrative of [SAP CEO Bill McDermott, who] chronicles how relentless optimism, hard work, and disciplined execution embolden people and equip organizations to achieve audacious goals ... Colorful and fast-paced, Bill's anecdotes contain effective takeaways: gutsy career moves; empathetic sales strategies; incentives that yield exceptional team performance; and proof of the competitive advantages...
Author
Publisher
HarperBusiness, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"Keach Hagey, media reporter for the Wall Street Journal, reveals the fascinating and shocking life story of Sumner Redstone, and his now-crumbling media empire, from his early rise in Boston to the estate battle that has already begun"-- Provided by publisher.
40) Afro Sheen: how I revolutionized an industry with the Golden Rule, from Soul Train to Wall Street
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2025.
Language
English
Description
"The inspiring and resilient story of George E. Johnson, creator of the iconic Afro Sheen and the first Black-owned company to be traded on Wall Street. You might already be familiar with Afro Sheen and Ultra Sheen, but have you heard of the man behind the company that produced these products? In Afro Sheen, George Ellis Johnson, the acclaimed self-made businessman, reveals his inspiring and captivating rise from humble beginnings to the top of the...
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