TY - BOOK AU - Hamilton,Dennis TI - Beyond Tallulah: how Sam Wyly became America's boldest big-time entrepreneur SN - 9781595910691 AV - HC102.H217.B496 2011 PY - 2011/// CY - New York PB - Melcher Media KW - Wyly, Sam. KW - Businessmen KW - United States KW - Biography KW - Entrepreneurship KW - Billionaires N1 - Acc. numbers 102975, c.1; 102976, c.2; 102977, c.3; 4; Thinking beyond Tallulah --; Taking that hill for Big Blue --; There's a pony in there somewhere --; Never let your wallet tell you what you can do --; Talent goes where the action is --; An accidental bonanza --; If you can't join 'em, lick 'em --; Learn, baby, learn! --; Mining your own business --; Exploit the chaos --; How Jonah swallowed the whale --; When all around you are losing their heads --; Let a thousand super-entrepreneurs bloom --; The sweet spot at last --; The 8 billion harvest --; Investing the time to invest wisely --; We're doing this for Ray --; The dirty politics of clean energy --; Epilogue : We need a cat; 2 N2 - "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 America did business." ER -