So Good They Can't Ignore You: Why Skills Trump Passion in the Quest for Work You Love
by Cal Newport · 17 Sep 2012 · 197pp · 60,477 words
-raising Meeting 1 Highly Changeable Commitments Activity Hours Allocated for the Week Improving Fund-raising Materials 3 Fund-raising Process 12 Due Diligence Research 3 Deal Flow Sourcing 3 Meetings/Calls with Potential Investors 1 Work with Portfolio Companies 2 Networking/Professional Development 3 Mike’s goal with his spreadsheet is to
When the Wolves Bite: Two Billionaires, One Company, and an Epic Wall Street Battle
by Scott Wapner · 23 Apr 2018 · 302pp · 80,287 words
an interview with CNBC’s mergers and acquisitions expert David Faber, who asked Pearson point-blank whether the market was forcing him to keep the deal flow going, irrespective of whether it made good business sense. “That’s my job,” Pearson scoffed. “It’s our board’s job to do whatever we
Poorly Made in China: An Insider's Account of the Tactics Behind China's Production Game
by Paul Midler · 18 Mar 2009 · 254pp · 14,795 words
ground. These manufacturers were thrilled when they signed up their first major customer, and they got another kick from orders that were especially large. When deal flow leveled out, factory owners looked for others ways in which they could capture that hint of thrill. The poverty myth was dispelled at least to
Lurking: How a Person Became a User
by Joanne McNeil · 25 Feb 2020 · 239pp · 80,319 words
out on top.’” See also reports about Jeff Bezos’s “women flow,” which wasn’t an actual app but an approach to dating inspired by “deal flow” on Wall Street. The updates on Myspace Tom drew from Business Insider (Nicholas Carlson, “Myspace Tom: I Am ‘The Guy Who Sold Myspace for $580
Statistical Arbitrage: Algorithmic Trading Insights and Techniques
by Andrew Pole · 14 Sep 2007 · 257pp · 13,443 words
important is an understanding of the source of the return generated by the business and the conditions under which that source pertains. The magic words ‘‘deal flow’’ echo in investor heads the moment merger arbitrage is mentioned. A visceral understanding provides a comfortable intellectual hook: When the economy improves (undefined—another internalized
Transaction Man: The Rise of the Deal and the Decline of the American Dream
by Nicholas Lemann · 9 Sep 2019 · 354pp · 118,970 words
next to Jeff Weiner’s. This put him more formally in the position he’d been in informally for years, with as much access to deal flow, the lifeblood of Silicon Valley, as anybody. As he casually remarked to a visitor once, “If there’s anything in the Valley, I’m going
Peers Inc: How People and Platforms Are Inventing the Collaborative Economy and Reinventing Capitalism
by Robin Chase · 14 May 2015 · 330pp · 91,805 words
the potential to profoundly transform traditional banking over the next decade.”14 The question is, transform it into what? A different cover on the same deal flow? Or a totally different group of lenders? In some city markets, Airbnb has seen the same takeover: professionals using the platform to market their apartments
Makers
by Chris Anderson · 1 Oct 2012 · 238pp · 73,824 words
the French sourcing in, well, anywhere but Germany. It’s a fascinating glimpse into culture, economics, and globalization. Forget the rhetoric—this is the raw deal flow of what companies are actually doing every day. What’s even more interesting than what’s being ordered is who’s doing it. It’s
Startup Communities: Building an Entrepreneurial Ecosystem in Your City
by Brad Feld · 8 Oct 2012 · 169pp · 56,250 words
. But like so much in a startup community, they are neither necessary nor sufficient. For prospective angel investors who don’t think they have enough deal flow or want someone to help them think through the screening or legal process, an angel investing group can be a good thing. But saying that
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more organized angel groups in the Boulder-Denver area. The group found the large, formal angel organizations to be expensive and a poor source of deal flow. Boulder Angels was created with two major assumptions in mind. First, we assumed an angel group could be very informal, lightweight, and nimble. We wanted
eBoys
by Randall E. Stross · 30 Oct 2008 · 381pp · 112,674 words
in residence at Benchmark. EIRs, as they were known, were funded by many of the leading venture firms in the Valley as a source of “deal flow”; by having EIRs tinker with a new business plan while under the same roof, the firm gets the first peek; if it likes what it
Do More Faster: TechStars Lessons to Accelerate Your Startup
by Brad Feld and David Cohen · 18 Oct 2010 · 326pp · 74,433 words
Too big to fail: the inside story of how Wall Street and Washington fought to save the financial system from crisis--and themselves
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Fed Up!: Success, Excess and Crisis Through the Eyes of a Hedge Fund Macro Trader
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The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon
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What Should I Do With My Life?
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The Website Investor: The Guide to Buying an Online Website Business for Passive Income
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One Click: Jeff Bezos and the Rise of Amazon.com
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European Founders at Work
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Brotopia: Breaking Up the Boys' Club of Silicon Valley
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The Middleman Economy: How Brokers, Agents, Dealers, and Everyday Matchmakers Create Value and Profit
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The Revolution That Wasn't: GameStop, Reddit, and the Fleecing of Small Investors
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Don't Be Evil: How Big Tech Betrayed Its Founding Principles--And All of US
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Women Leaders at Work: Untold Tales of Women Achieving Their Ambitions
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How to Build a Billion Dollar App: Discover the Secrets of the Most Successful Entrepreneurs of Our Time
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Young Money: Inside the Hidden World of Wall Street's Post-Crash Recruits
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The Optimist: Sam Altman, OpenAI, and the Race to Invent the Future
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The Price Is Wrong: Why Capitalism Won't Save the Planet
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Bleeding Edge: A Novel
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Currency Wars: The Making of the Next Gobal Crisis
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How to Be the Startup Hero: A Guide and Textbook for Entrepreneurs and Aspiring Entrepreneurs
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Expected Returns: An Investor's Guide to Harvesting Market Rewards
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Bold: How to Go Big, Create Wealth and Impact the World
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The End of Growth
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House of Cards: A Tale of Hubris and Wretched Excess on Wall Street
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On the Edge: The Art of Risking Everything
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Getting a Job in Hedge Funds: An Inside Look at How Funds Hire
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Tools of Titans: The Tactics, Routines, and Habits of Billionaires, Icons, and World-Class Performers
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Alpha Girls: The Women Upstarts Who Took on Silicon Valley's Male Culture and Made the Deals of a Lifetime
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Financial Market Meltdown: Everything You Need to Know to Understand and Survive the Global Credit Crisis
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The Accidental Investment Banker: Inside the Decade That Transformed Wall Street
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The Last Tycoons: The Secret History of Lazard Frères & Co.
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Chaos Monkeys: Obscene Fortune and Random Failure in Silicon Valley
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Mastering the VC Game: A Venture Capital Insider Reveals How to Get From Start-Up to IPO on Your Terms
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Den of Thieves
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The Greed Merchants: How the Investment Banks Exploited the System
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Unconventional Success: A Fundamental Approach to Personal Investment
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Confessions of a Wall Street Analyst: A True Story of Inside Information and Corruption in the Stock Market
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Money and Power: How Goldman Sachs Came to Rule the World
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Mastering Private Equity
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King of Capital: The Remarkable Rise, Fall, and Rise Again of Steve Schwarzman and Blackstone
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Conspiracy of Fools: A True Story
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