Closing Thoughts: Finance Secrets of Billion-Dollar Entrepreneurs
Book: Finance Secrets of Billion-Dollar Entrepreneurs: Venture Finance without Venture Capital
Author: Dileep Rao
ISBN: 978-1-64250-199-5
Entrepreneurship
How John Bogle Built Vanguard After Getting Fired
Common Sense on Mutual Funds | John C. Bogle | ISBN: 9780470597484
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How to Get Rich: A Series on Trump's 2004 Business Playbook
Book: How to Get Rich
Author: Donald J. Trump (with Meredith McIver)
ISBN: 1-58836-410-0
I’m starting a series on How to Get Rich by Donald J. Trump, written with Meredith McIver and published in 2004. This is the follow-up to The Art of the Deal, which came out in 1987 and became the bestselling business book of that decade. Over three million copies sold. That’s a hard act to follow.
Chapter 1: The Heart of the Machine - The Entrepreneur
We’ve talked about history, but let’s get into the real engine of private equity: the entrepreneur.
Cyril Demaria makes one thing very clear: without entrepreneurs, private equity has no reason to exist. The entrepreneur is the one who takes a bunch of separate pieces—time, money, ideas—and turns them into something way bigger than the sum of its parts.
Chapter 1: From Explorers to Entrepreneurs
We saw how Christopher Columbus was basically a 15th-century startup founder. But for private equity to become a real industry, something big had to change. We needed a shift from “kings and queens” to “partners and contracts.”
Chapter 1: The Wild Origins of Private Equity - From Columbus to Modern Finance
Chapter 1 of Cyril Demaria’s book opens with a story you probably did not expect in a finance textbook. Christopher Columbus. Yep, the guy with the ships.