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Author
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
249 pages ; 23 cm
Description
Rule one is never get involved. Corinne has always lived by this. She is all business, all the time. Rule two is always resist temptation. But Maverick businessman Corey Haraden conducts his love life the same way he does business --with enthusiasm. Rule three --rules are meant to be broken.
2) Down to business: 51 industry leaders share practical advice on how to become a young entrepreneur
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
xiii, 399 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Description
"You have a start-up idea but … where do you go from there? Two teen entrepreneurs bring together 51 influential business leaders for Q&As about starting a business, finding success, and, yes, making money. Fifteen-year-olds Fenley Scurlock and Jason Liaw had both started businesses by the time they'd reached middle school. In this groundbreaking book, these young entrepreneurs interview leaders involved with brand-name businesses like MasterClass,...
3) Joy
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Formats
Description
A wild story of a family across four generations centered on the girl who becomes the woman who founds a business dynasty and becomes a matriarch in her own right. Betrayal, treachery, the loss of innocence and the scars of love, pave the road in this intense emotional and human comedy about becoming a true boss of family and enterprise facing a world of unforgiving commerce.
Publisher
Orchard
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (111 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Cousins from New York, Vincent and Anton, are players in the high-stakes game of High-Frequency Trading, where winning is measured in milliseconds. Their dream? To build a straight fiber-optic cable line between Kansas and New Jersey, making them millions. But nothing is straightforward for this flawed pair. Anton is the brains, Vincent is the hustler, and together they push each other and everyone around them to the breaking point with their quixotic...
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Workshop
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
108 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Description
"Sam Walton used the money he earned in the army, along with some financial help from his family, to open his first store. Then he opened fourteen more. Then Sam had an even bigger idea. He wanted to build large stores in small towns and reduce the price of everything they stocked. Although other businessmen and potential partners laughed at him, this entrepreneur with humble beginnings used his resourcefulness to create Walmart, which would become...
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
xvi, 302 pages ; 24 cm
Description
"Based on the highly acclaimed NPR podcast, How I Built This with Guy Raz, this book offers priceless insights and inspiration from the world's top entrepreneurs on how to start, launch, and build a successful venture"--
Author
Series
Wednesday Wilson volume 2
Publisher
Kids Can Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
136 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
Description
"Wednesday Wilson is only trying to help her brother when her latest business idea strikes! Sometimes the best business ideas pop up when you least expect them. Or that's what happens to Wednesday Wilson, anyway, the morning her brother, Mister, locks himself in the bathroom because he's nervous about a school presentation. When classmate Emmet convinces Mister that a worry stone will calm his nerves, Wednesday offers Mister her marble--with the promise...
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 blu-ray (98 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Alan Clay, a recently divorced American businessman who is sent overseas to pitch a state-of-the-art holographic teleconfrencing system to the king. Alan tries to navigate the country's unique customs and finds himself thrust into a series of wonderful misadventures.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
[xxi, 307] pages ; 25 cm
Description
"Contrary to what you may have heard, the middle class is not dying and robots are not stealing our jobs. In fact, writes Adam Davidson-one of our leading public voices on economic issues- the twenty-first-century economic paradigm offers new ways of making money, fresh paths toward professional fulfillment, and unprecedented opportunities for curious, ambitious individuals to combine the things they love with their careers. Drawing on the stories...
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
280 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Description
An authorized portrait of one of Silicon Valley's most dynamic entrepreneurs evaluates his role in the successes of such innovations as Tesla and Space X while evaluating America's technological competitiveness.
Author
Publisher
Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
392 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illlustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm
Description
Elon Musk, the renowned entrepreneur and innovator behind SpaceX, Tesla, and SolarCity, sold one of his internet companies, PayPal, for $1.5 billion. Ashlee Vance captures the full spectacle and arc of the genius's life and work, from his tumultuous upbringing in South Africa and flight to the United States to his dramatic technical innovations and entrepreneurial pursuits. Vance uses Musk's story to explore one of the pressing questions of our age:...
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
x, 271 pages ; 22 cm
Description
The founder of Scholly, an app that helps match college applicants with millions of dollars in unclaimed scholarships, presents a playbook for other young underprivileged students to overcome the obstacles to realizing their educational aspirations.
Series
Publisher
Pbs
Pub. Date
©2014
Physical Desc
3 DVDs (ca. 450 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Much has changed since Selfridges first opened its doors. Five years later, Europe is on the brink of war and London is enjoying one last defiant period of decadence. Mr. Selfridge now has his sights set on joining the establishment and rebuilding his family life. Tensions are also running high on the shop floor as Agnes is back from Paris, chic and successful. Not everyone is thrilled by her newfound confidence and by the reappearance of her old...
17) Steve Jobs
Author
Description
Based on more than forty interviews with Jobs conducted over two years, as well as interviews with more than a hundred family members, friends, adversaries, competitors, and colleagues, the author has written a riveting story of the roller-coaster life and searingly intense personality of a creative entrepreneur whose passion for perfection and ferocious drive revolutionized six industries: personal computers, animated movies, music, phones, tablet...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
xxiv, 868 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.
Description
"Celebrated historian David Nasaw brings to life the story of Joseph Patrick Kennedy, in this, the first and only biography based on unrestricted and exclusive access to the Joseph P. Kennedy papers."--
Author
Description
From the Pulitzer-Prize-winning New York Times reporter who has defined Donald J. Trump's presidency like no other journalist: a magnificent and disturbing reckoning that moves beyond simplistic caricature, chronicling his rise in New York City to his tortured post-presidency and his potential comeback. Few journalists working today have covered Donald Trump more extensively than Maggie Haberman. And few understand him and his motivations better....
20) Steve Jobs
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Description
Follow the life of the late Steve Jobs. His drive to change technology ultimatly had a negative effect on everyone around him.
"Thanks to Fassbender's revelatory performance, Jobs comes across as a captivating monster, a dictator in a black turtleneck who is impossible to ignore."--Globe and Mail.
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