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Beyond Tallulah : how Sam Wyly became America's boldest big-time entrepreneur / by Dennis Hamilton.

Wyly, Sam. (Author). Hamilton, Dennis. (Added Author).

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.

Record details

  • ISBN: 1595910697
  • ISBN: 9781595910691
  • Physical Description: 335 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
  • Edition: 1st edition
  • Publisher: New York : Melcher Media, [2011]

Content descriptions

General Note:
Includes index.
Formatted Contents Note:
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.
Subject:
Wyly, Sam.
Billionaires > United States > Biography.
Businessmen > United States > Biography.
Entrepreneurship > United States > Biography.
Genre:
Autobiographies.

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