| Edition |
1st ed. |
| Description |
335 p. : ill. (some col.), col. map ; 24 cm. |
| Note |
Includes index. |
| Contents |
Thinking beyond Tallulah -- Taking that hill for Big Blue -- There's a pony in there somewhere -- Never let your wallet tell you what you can do -- Talent goes where the action is -- An accidental bonanza -- If you can't join 'em, lick 'em -- Learn, baby, learn! -- Mining your own business -- Exploit the chaos -- How Jonah swallowed the whale -- When all around you are losing their heads -- Let a thousand super-entrepreneurs bloom -- The sweet spot at last -- The $8 billion harvest -- Investing the time to invest wisely -- We're doing this for Ray -- The dirty politics of clean energy -- Epilogue : We need a cat. |
| Summary |
"At the dawn of the Information Age in 1963, a computer salesman in Texas saw an opportunity where IBM, his former employer, saw only dusty oil camps. This young entrepreneur, who had grown up dirt-poor in rural Louisiana during the Great Depression, staked his young family's livelihood on the notion that computers would help out local businesses - and quite possibly, revolutionize the way America did business." Dust jacket. |
| Source |
NBK 11/11 PPL |
| Subject |
Wyly, Sam.
|
|
Businessmen -- United States -- Biography.
|
|
Entrepreneurship -- United States -- Biography.
|
|
Billionaires -- United States -- Biography.
|
| ISBN |
9781595910691 |
|
1595910697 |
|
