Beyond Tallulah : how Sam Wyly became America's boldest big-time entrepreneur / preface by Sam Wyly ; introduction and narrative by Dennis Hamilton.
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...
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
Melcher Media,
[2011], ©2011.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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| Physical Description: | 335 pages : illustrations (some color), color maps ; 24 cm |
| Format: | Book |
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.