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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Preface | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Leadership | |
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| Section-at-a-Glance | |
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| Overview | |
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| Individual Profiles | |
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| The Price of Distraction: Ken Wolf | |
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| Right Moves, Wrong People: Douglas Mellinger | |
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| Stealing the Company Blind: Frank Nemiroff | |
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| You Gotta Believe: Marx Acosta-Rubio | |
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| Riding the Roller Coaster: Mark Moses | |
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| Pay Me Now or Pay Me Later: Joshua Schecter | |
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| Back To Where It All Began: Bob Kirstiuk | |
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| Losing a Partner: Charles Tetrick | |
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| Inheriting Problems: Anne Bain | |
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| Building a Business or Building a Company: Kevin Daum | |
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| Wrap-up | |
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| Top Ten Lessons in Leadership | |
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| People | |
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| Section-at-a-Glance | |
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| Overview | |
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| Individual Profiles | |
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| Brewing up a Perfect Business: Sam Boyer | |
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| Aiming for the Fairway: Craig Pollard | |
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| When Disaster Strikes: Damon Gersh | |
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| Always Behind the Curve: Howard Getson | |
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| No Systems, No Results: Alex Rusch | |
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| Picking the Wrong Guy ... Again: Paul Hickey | |
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| Wrap-up | |
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| Top Ten Lessons in People | |
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| Partnerships | |
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| Section-at-a-Glance | |
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| Overview | |
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| Individual Profiles | |
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| Starting with a Bang, Ending with a Whimper: Jeff Dennis | |
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| Get it in Writing: Julie Pearl | |
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| A Matter of Interpretation: David Dash | |
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| Caught Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Peter Davies | |
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| Getting Conned: Mike Meek | |
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| Always Knows Where the Exits Are: Greg Ferguson | |
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| Selling Yourself Short: Tina Holden | |
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| Wrap-up | |
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| Top Ten Lessons in Partnerships | |
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| Money | |
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| Section-at-a-Glance | |
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| Overview | |
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| Individual Profiles | |
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| Surviving the Dot-Com Explosion: Sanjay Parekh | |
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| When Good Money Chases Bad: Niv Ben-Haim | |
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| Making the Right Moves: Tim Riley | |
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| Diversify Your Investors: Robert Kulhawy | |
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| Putting Your Eggs in One Basket: Lance Stendal | |
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| On the Outside Looking In: Michael Beirne | |
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| Swimming Against the Current: Kirsten Knight | |
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| He Offered to Loan Me My Money: David Schulhof | |
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| Caught in the Act: Bill Kimberlin | |
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| Getting Thrown a Curve Ball: Greg Levin | |
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| Feeling the Burn: Derek Harp | |
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| Wrap-up | |
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| Top Ten Lessons in Money | |
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| Personal Issues | |
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| Section-at-a-Glance | |
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| Overview | |
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| Individual Profiles | |
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| Losing Your Company, Losing Everything: James Fierro | |
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| The Young and the Restless: Parvinder Singh | |
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| The Reluctant Entrepreneur: Bill Lee | |
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| An Inside Job: Louette Glabb | |
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| Learning to Shift Gears: Isaac Rosenberg | |
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| Merging Without Looking Both Ways: Laura McCann | |
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| Out of the Ashes: Barrett Ersek | |
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| Wrap-up | |
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| Top Ten Lessons in Personal Issues | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Index | |