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Confessions of a serial entrepreneur : why I can't stop starting over /
Entrepreneur Stuart Skorman--the founder of Elephant Pharmacy, Hungryminds.com, Reel.com, and Empire Video--grew up in a retailing family in Ohio. He worked every kind of job, from cab driver to professional poker player to CEO. In this entertaining, personal account of his coming-of- age in the bus...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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San Francisco :
Jossey-Bass/Wiley,
©2007.
©2007 |
| Edición: | 1st ed. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo (Requiere registro previo con correo institucional) |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- My Jewish merchant family : my home town was never home. thank Heaven for Life magazine
- Sex, drugs, and the business of rock-and-roll : some went to business school; I managed a rock band. (Guess who had more fun?)
- Bankruptcy at home : how I tried and failed to save my father's business
- Helping to invent Whole Foods : battles with my mentor made me wiser, confident, and determined never to work for anybody again
- Bike-touring adventures : by the end of my cross-country journey, I'd decided to become an entrepreneur
- Building a video empire : my perfect start-up: a hole-in-the-wall video store
- Millionaire without a mission : I struck a deal with Blockbuster, headed for Silicon Valley, and left small-town retail behind forever
- My professional poker career : after two years of high-stakes poker, I was ready for anything
- Easy dot come: the making of an Internet pioneer : how I founded and sold a company for $100 million in less than three years
- Easy dot go: getting carried away with the Internet : good intentions but a lousy business plan is a great way to lose millions
- Adventures in the wild : the sharks of the South Pacific are as dangerous as the ones in Silicon Valley
- Taming a wild elephant : I thought I was ready for the biggest project of my life; now I'm not so sure
- What it takes (and doesn't take) to be an entrepreneur : know yourself, keep learning, and hang on for the ride!