The Resource Beyond Tallulah : how Sam Wyly became America's boldest big-time entrepreneur, by Dennis Hamilton
Beyond Tallulah : how Sam Wyly became America's boldest big-time entrepreneur, by Dennis Hamilton
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The item Beyond Tallulah : how Sam Wyly became America's boldest big-time entrepreneur, by Dennis Hamilton represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Jacksonville Public Library.
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- 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
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- 1st ed.
- Extent
- 335 pages
- Note
- Includes index
- Contents
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- 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
- Isbn
- 9781595910691
- Label
- Beyond Tallulah : how Sam Wyly became America's boldest big-time entrepreneur
- Title
- Beyond Tallulah
- Title remainder
- how Sam Wyly became America's boldest big-time entrepreneur
- Statement of responsibility
- by Dennis Hamilton
- Language
- eng
- 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
- Biography type
- autobiography
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Wyly, Sam
- Dewey number
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- 338/.04092
- B
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- HC102.5.W95
- LC item number
- A33 2011
- Literary form
- non fiction
- http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorName
- Hamilton, Dennis
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Wyly, Sam
- Businessmen
- Entrepreneurship
- Billionaires
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / General
- Label
- Beyond Tallulah : how Sam Wyly became America's boldest big-time entrepreneur, by Dennis Hamilton
- Note
- Includes index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- 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
- Control code
- ocn744978245
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Edition
- 1st ed.
- Extent
- 335 pages
- Isbn
- 9781595910691
- Lccn
- 2011031275
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations, maps
- System control number
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- 1068214
- (Sirsi) o744978245
- (OCoLC)744978245
- Label
- Beyond Tallulah : how Sam Wyly became America's boldest big-time entrepreneur, by Dennis Hamilton
- Note
- Includes index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- 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
- Control code
- ocn744978245
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Edition
- 1st ed.
- Extent
- 335 pages
- Isbn
- 9781595910691
- Lccn
- 2011031275
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations, maps
- System control number
-
- 1068214
- (Sirsi) o744978245
- (OCoLC)744978245
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