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LESSONS LEARNED FROM LEADING ENTREPRENEURS: CASE STUDIES IN BUSINESS AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP provides the reader with an opportunity to learn from some of the most successful entrepreneurs of our generation. The book allows readers the opportunity to follow famous entrepreneurs like Steve Jobs and Apple, Warren Buffett and Berkshire Hathaway, Larry Page and Sergey Brin of Google, and Wayne Huizenga, the only person to found three Fortune 500 companies: Waste Management, Inc., Blockbuster, and AutoNation. All the entrepreneurs read their cases and gave feedback, excluding Jobs. The Buffett case has received world-wide recognition as even Buffett himself acknowledged the value by inviting the author to Omaha three times. This book provides valuable lessons ranging from Buffett’s keys to success (investment methodology and wealth building strategies), creating, growing, and managing a business, integrating successful corporate entrepreneurship, international entrepreneurship, acquiring a franchise, acquiring a small business, strategies to raise capital for your venture, and succession issues within family businesses.
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WARREN BUFFETT: INVESTOR AND ENTREPRENEUR
Warren Buffett is perhaps the most accomplished investor of all time. The CEO and chair of Berkshire Hathaway has earned admiration for not only his financial feats but also the philosophy behind them. Todd A. Finkle provides striking new insights into Buffett’s career through the lens of entrepreneurship. This book demonstrates that although Buffett is thought of primarily as an investor, one of the secrets to his success has been running Berkshire as an entrepreneur.
Finkle—a Buffett family friend—shares his perspective on Buffett’s early life and business ventures. The book traces the entrepreneurial paths that shaped Buffett’s career, from selling gum door-to-door during childhood to forming Berkshire Hathaway and developing it into a global conglomerate through the imaginative deployment of financial instruments and creative deal making. Finkle considers Buffett’s investment methodology, management strategy, and personal philosophy on building a rewarding life in terms of entrepreneurship. He also zeros in on Buffett’s longtime business partner Charlie Munger and his contributions to Berkshire’s success. Finkle draws key lessons from Buffett’s mistakes as well as his successes, using these failures to explore the ways behavioral biases can affect investors and how to overcome them. By viewing Buffett as an entrepreneur, this book offers readers a fresh take on one of the world’s best-known financial titans. |
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