The Resource 1,000 dollars and an idea : entrepreneur to billionaire, Sam Wyly
1,000 dollars and an idea : entrepreneur to billionaire, Sam Wyly
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The item 1,000 dollars and an idea : entrepreneur to billionaire, Sam Wyly represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Portland Public Library.
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- Summary
- Traces the rags-to-riches story of a Louisiana self-made billionaire, from his efforts to put himself through school and his entry into the millionaire leagues after investing in a computer utility company to his creations of highly profitable companies and his dedication to green energy
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- Expanded ed.
- Extent
- x, 293 p.
- Note
- Includes index
- Contents
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- "Beat Tallulah"
- Flora's boys
- Big blue
- Peter Drucker wrote the bible
- Reach for a star, not a handful of mud
- Me and Ross Perot
- The birth of a company
- A thousand dollars and an idea
- Multinational entrepreneur
- If you can't join 'em, beat 'em
- Monopoly buster: Datran, or die trying
- Before there was software, there was Don Thomson
- Earth resources
- Bonanza
- Taking my losses
- Sterling software
- Money's not scarce
- Never let your pocketbook tell you what you can do
- The crafty woman
- Maverick investor
- The good earth
- Surprise!
- The great crash of 2008
- No money down
- Growth
- Isbn
- 9781557048646
- Label
- 1,000 dollars and an idea : entrepreneur to billionaire
- Title
- 1,000 dollars and an idea
- Title remainder
- entrepreneur to billionaire
- Statement of responsibility
- Sam Wyly
- Title variation
-
- One thousand dollars and an idea
- 1,000 dollars & an idea
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- Traces the rags-to-riches story of a Louisiana self-made billionaire, from his efforts to put himself through school and his entry into the millionaire leagues after investing in a computer utility company to his creations of highly profitable companies and his dedication to green energy
- Biography type
- autobiography
- Cataloging source
- ECL
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Wyly, Sam
- Index
- index present
- Literary form
- non fiction
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Wyly, Sam
- Businessmen
- Entrepreneurship
- Billionaires
- Label
- 1,000 dollars and an idea : entrepreneur to billionaire, Sam Wyly
- Note
- Includes index
- Contents
- "Beat Tallulah" -- Flora's boys -- Big blue -- Peter Drucker wrote the bible -- Reach for a star, not a handful of mud -- Me and Ross Perot -- The birth of a company -- A thousand dollars and an idea -- Multinational entrepreneur -- If you can't join 'em, beat 'em -- Monopoly buster: Datran, or die trying -- Before there was software, there was Don Thomson -- Earth resources -- Bonanza -- Taking my losses -- Sterling software -- Money's not scarce -- Never let your pocketbook tell you what you can do -- The crafty woman -- Maverick investor -- The good earth -- Surprise! -- The great crash of 2008 -- No money down -- Growth
- Control code
- 455328873
- Dimensions
- 24 cm.
- Edition
- Expanded ed.
- Extent
- x, 293 p.
- Isbn
- 9781557048646
- Isbn Type
- (alk. paper)
- Label
- 1,000 dollars and an idea : entrepreneur to billionaire, Sam Wyly
- Note
- Includes index
- Contents
- "Beat Tallulah" -- Flora's boys -- Big blue -- Peter Drucker wrote the bible -- Reach for a star, not a handful of mud -- Me and Ross Perot -- The birth of a company -- A thousand dollars and an idea -- Multinational entrepreneur -- If you can't join 'em, beat 'em -- Monopoly buster: Datran, or die trying -- Before there was software, there was Don Thomson -- Earth resources -- Bonanza -- Taking my losses -- Sterling software -- Money's not scarce -- Never let your pocketbook tell you what you can do -- The crafty woman -- Maverick investor -- The good earth -- Surprise! -- The great crash of 2008 -- No money down -- Growth
- Control code
- 455328873
- Dimensions
- 24 cm.
- Edition
- Expanded ed.
- Extent
- x, 293 p.
- Isbn
- 9781557048646
- Isbn Type
- (alk. paper)
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