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Businessmen United States Biography Businesspeople United States Biography Entrepreneuriat Entrepreneurship Entrepreneurship United States Entrepreneurship United States Case studies Maryland Prince George's County New business enterprises United States Slaves Legal status, laws, etc United StatesDrucker, Peter F. (Peter Ferdinand)
Summary: This is the first book to present innovation and entrepreneurship as a purposeful and systematic discipline that explains and analyzes the challenges and opportunities of America's new entrepreneurial economy. Superbly practical, Innovation and Entrepreneurship explains what established businesses, public service institutions, and new ventures need to know and do to succeed in today's economy....
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperBusiness 1993
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Price, Courtney.
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Publisher / Publication Date: McGraw-Hill 1998
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 658.41 PRICollins, James C. (James Charles)
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperBusiness 1994
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 658 COLUlmer, Mikaila
Summary: "Fifteen-year-old lemonade entrepreneur Mikaila Ulmer shares her advice for life and business"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 ULMStone, Brad
Summary: In the spirit of iconic Silicon Valley renegades like Steve Jobs and Bill Gates, another generation of entrepreneurs is using technology to upend convention and disrupt entire industries. These are the upstarts, idiosyncratic founders with limitless drive and an abundance of self-confidence. Led by such visionaries as Travis Kalanick of Uber and Brian Chesky of Airbnb, they are rewriting the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 658.6 STOMarcus, Bernie.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Times Business 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 683 MARThomas, Marlo
Summary: Presents inspiring and empowering stories of women who have reinvented themselves in extraordinary ways, proving to women of all ages that the best is yet to come.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pocket Books 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 650.1 THOLangone, Kenneth G.
Summary: "Iconoclastic entrepreneur and New York legend Ken Langone tells the compelling story of how a poor boy from Long Island became one of America's most successful businessmen. Ken Langone has seen it all on his way to a net worth beyond his wildest dreams.A pillar of corporate America for decades, he's a co-founder of Home Depot, a former director of the New York Stock Exchange, and a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Portfolio/Penguin 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 LANGONE, KENNETH G LANWyly, Sam.
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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Melcher Media 2011
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 338/.04092B HAMStone, Biz.
Summary: "Biz Stone, the co-founder of Twitter, discusses the power of creativity and how to harness it, through stories from his remarkable life and career. THINGS A LITTLE BIRD TOLD ME From GQ's "Nerd of the Year" to one of Time's most influential people in the world, Biz Stone represents different things to different people. But he is known to all as the creative, effervescent, funny, charmingly...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Pub 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 STONE, BIZ STOMcCormick, Blaine.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Entrepreneur Press 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 FRANKLIN, BENJAMIN FranklinSummary: With a fist full of credit cards, a lucky run at the horse track, and chutzpah for days, Franco Stevens launched Curve, the best-selling lesbian magazine ever published. The film tracks the power of lesbian visibility and community from the early '90s to the present day through the story of Franco's founding of Curve magazine. Decades later, in the wake of a disabling injury, Franco learns that...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC AHEMcGrath, Karen
Summary: "Brew Your Business: The Ultimate Craft Beer Playbook incorporates cultural, legal, business, public relations, management, science, networking, and brewing experience into one easily accessible book for everyone who wants to know more about craft beer brewing, tasting, and selling. The authors provide a tasty overview of various types of craft beer, methods for brewing, and opportunities for...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rowman & Littlefield, a wholly owned subsidiary of The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc. 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 658.6 MCGDoan, Jenny
Summary: "Over the last decade, the Doan family business, the Missouri Star Quilt Company in tiny Hamilton, Missouri, has grown from Jenny's corner shop -- with one quilting machine and two bolts of fabric for sale in the back -- to become the largest supplier of pre-cut quilting fabric in the U.S. and the headquarters of Jenny's world-famous YouTube tutorial videos. Jenny is now giving her fans, the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2022
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LPB DOAN DOAHamilton, Arlan
Summary: "Having lived nearly her entire life below the poverty line before going on to attain wealth and success as an entrepreneur and investor, Arlan Hamilton knows that entrepreneurship is the quickest path to money and power-particularly for those who haven't had much of it in the past. In Your First Million, she shows how anyone-no matter what they look like or how much money they have-can tap...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown Spark 2024
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Summary: The story of the longest and most complex legal challenge to slavery in American history, in which a number of enslaved families challenged their bondage in court.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Yale University Press 2020