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

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

Language

eng

resource.biographical

autobiography

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Beyond Tallulah

Oclc number

744978245

Responsibility statement

by Dennis Hamilton

Sub title

how Sam Wyly became America's boldest big-time entrepreneur

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

Table Of 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

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