Mike Caslin and Steve Mariotti
The Very, Very Rich
Profiles of Phenomenal Entrepreneurs, How They Got That Way, and How You Can, Too!
Career Press, 2000
What's inside?
The very, very rich entrepreneurs profiled here got wealthy the old-fashioned way: they had great ideas and took them to market...at the right time, with the right money, with persistence, blood, sweat and tears.
Recommendation
How the rich got that way is an interesting enough topic. But an interesting topic does not necessarily make an intriguing book. Author Steve Mariotti profiles 20 well-known 20th-century entrepreneurs. You will easily recognize the names Bezos, Branson, Burrell, Kroc, Roddick, Walton, Ford and Winfrey. However, the author presents little new information about them. His profiles are short; three to four pages, and take the tone of corporate press releases. The book works best as a compendium of capitalist success stories, and getAbstract.com recommends it as a student’s primer in entrepreneurial studies. Since the author shares cover credit with the charitable program he launched to help low-income teen entrepreneurs, that might be just the audience that the author had in mind.
Summary
About the Authors
Steve Mariotti is the author of numerous books on entrepreneurship. He is the founder of the National Foundation for Teaching Entreprenuership (NFTE), an international nonprofit organization that introduces low-income teens to the world of business and entrepreneurship by teaching them how to develop and operate their own small businesses. Mike Caslin is the CEO of NTFE.
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