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Author
Publisher
Legacy Lit
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"While dreaming of an easier way to order pizza, Mike Evans founded the online food delivery site, Grubhub, in his spare bedroom and grew it into the multi-billion-dollar colossus that is now a household name. But it wasn't as easy as searching, clicking, and checking out. Mike's meteoric rise to the top of the booming tech and business world demanded a decade of 80 hour work weeks, endless financing rounds, cliffhanger acquisitions, the near collapse...
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"A leading business journalist takes us inside a business revolution: the upstart brands taking on the empires that long dominated the trillion-dollar consumer economy. Dollar Shave Club and its hilarious marketing. Casper mattresses popping out of a box. Third Love's lingerie designed specifically for each woman's body. Warby Parker mailing you five pairs of glasses to choose from. You've seen their ads. You (or someone you know) use their products....
Author
Publisher
Post Hill Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Determined to fill the skies of America's cities with flying cars, a tech start-up must manipulate political operatives to their advantage while overcoming fierce opposition from rideshare companies, the Audubon Society, socialists and the Russian mob.
Publisher
Entrepreneur Media, Inc
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
At over a billion dollars, the mobile food industry is enjoying more publicity and notoriety than ever before. Catering to a new generation of foodies looking for quick and unique specialties, the mobile food business is booming with new opportunities for eager entrepreneurs like you. From gourmet food to all-American basics and hot dog wagons to bustaurants, our experts give you the delicious details behind starting and running a successful mobile...
Author
Publisher
Portfolio/Penguin
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"Every startup wants to change the world. But the ones who truly do know something the others don't: how to make government and regulation work for them. As startups use technology to shape the way we live, work, and learn, they're taking on challenges in sectors like healthcare, infrastructure, and education, where failure is far more consequential than a humorous chat with Siri or the wrong shoes showing up on your doorstep. These startups inevitably...
Author
Publisher
Nolo
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
From crafting to home repair work to website design, many individuals have transitioned, or wish to transition, from hobby to business, thereby turning their passion into income. And the latest economic forecasts are leading more people than ever to create a second business as they discover that one source of income just isn't enough.
Author
Publisher
Portfolio/Penguin, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Home Depot co-founder Ken Langone has seen it all on his way from childhood poverty to a net worth beyond his wildest dreams. This story of his unlikely rise and controversial career is also a passionate defense of the American Dream -- of preserving a country in which any hungry kid can reach the maximum potential of his or her talents and work ethic. Langone shows how he struggled to get an education, break into Wall Street, and scramble for an...
Author
Publisher
Hachette Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
For twenty-five years Dan Lyons was a magazine writer at the top of his profession--until one Friday morning when he received a phone call: Poof. His job no longer existed.Fifty years old and with a wife and two young kids, Dan was, in a word, screwed. Then an idea hit. Dan had long reported on Silicon Valley and the tech explosion. Why not join it? HubSpot, a Boston start-up, was flush with $100 million in venture capital. They offered Dan a pile...
Author
Publisher
Crown, an imprint of Random House, a division of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"The definitive inside story of WeWork, its audacious founder, and what its epic unraveling says about a financial system drunk on the elixir of Silicon Valley innovation-from the Wall Street Journal correspondents whose scoop-filled reporting hastened the company's downfall. WeWork would be worth $10 trillion, more than any other company in the world. It wasn't just an office space provider. It was a tech company-an AI startup, even. Its WeGrow schools...
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