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050 0 0 _aHC102.5.W95
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100 1 _aWyly, Sam.
245 1 0 _aBeyond Tallulah :
_bhow Sam Wyly became America's boldest big-time entrepreneur /
_cpreface by Sam Wyly ; introduction and narrative by Dennis Hamilton.
250 _a1st ed.
260 _aNew York :
_bMelcher Media,
_c2011.
300 _a335 pages :
_billustrations (some color), color maps ;
_c24 cm
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _aunmediated
_bn
_2rdamedia
338 _avolume
_bnc
_2rdacarrier
500 _aIncludes index.
505 0 _aThinking 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 -- We need a cat.
520 _a"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."
_cDust jacket.
600 1 0 _aWyly, Sam.
650 0 _aBusinessmen
_zUnited States
_vBiography.
650 0 _aEntrepreneurship
_zUnited States.
650 0 _aBillionaires
_zUnited States
_vBiography.
650 1 _aEntrepreneurship
_zUnited States
_vBiography.
600 1 7 _aWyly, Sam.
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650 7 _aBillionaires.
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_0(OCoLC)fst00831810
650 7 _aBusinessmen.
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_0(OCoLC)fst00842951
650 7 _aEntrepreneurship.
_2fast
_0(OCoLC)fst00912787
651 7 _aUnited States.
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_0(OCoLC)fst01204155
655 0 _aAutobiography.
655 4 _aNonfiction.
655 7 _aBiographies.
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_0(OCoLC)fst01919896
655 7 _aBiographies.
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856 4 2 _zAdditional Information at Google Books
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