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Format: Quality Paperback, Unabridged-CD, Unabridged-MP3
Publisher: Portfolio
Published: Mar 2013
Genre: Business & Economics - Entrepreneurship
Retail Price: $16.00
Ages: 18 - UP Pages: 240
DIVLike many entrepreneurs, Ryan Blair had no formal business education. But he had great survival instincts, tenacity, and, above all, a “nothing to lose” mindset./divdiv /divdivHis middle-class childhood ended abruptly when his abusive father succumbed to drug addiction and abandoned the family. Blair and his mother moved to a rough neighborhood, and soon he was in and out of juvenile detention, joining a gang just to survive./divdiv /divdivThen his mother fell in love with a successful entrepreneur who took Ryan under his wing. With his mentor’s guidance, Blair started his first company, 24/7 Tech, at age twenty-one. He has since created and sold several companies for hundreds of millions of dollars./divdiv /divdivThis is an inspirational guide full of powerful stories and lessons and a road map for entrepreneurial success./divbr