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  • The Risk Takers

  • 16 Women and Men Share Their Entrepreneurial Strategies for Success
  • Written by: Renee Martin, Don Martin
  • Narrated by: Joe Barrett
  • Length: 7 hrs and 59 mins
  • 4.1 out of 5 stars (14 ratings)

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The Risk Takers

Written by: Renee Martin, Don Martin
Narrated by: Joe Barrett
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Publisher's Summary

The Risk Takers is about ordinary people, all with good ideas, who faced daunting challenges, but took a leap of faith and started their own business. The book tells the stories of the personal and professional journeys of 16 fascinating men and women who built hugely successful, multimillion dollar companies. They started with very little, opted to strike out on their own, and struggled with disappointment and failure. Yet, they overcame adversity and through persistence and resiliency determined their own destiny.

You'll meet the founders of companies familiar to most Americans: Geek Squad, Curves, Liz Lange Maternity, Kinkos, Paul Mitchell, Spanx, Amy's Kitchen, along with nine others.

Don and Renee Martin, successful entrepreneurs in their own right, personally interviewed these men and women whose inspiring stories demonstrate its never been easy to start your own business and navigate it through all the inevitable storms to ultimate successin any economy, in any era. But can be done.

The personal stories in this volume remind us of what is possible when you combine an inspired business idea with faith and tenacity. It's the right book at the right time. It's time to resurrect the American Dream.

©2010 Renee Martin and Don Martin (P)2009 Audible, Inc.

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Dont buy this.

This book is horrible. And half of the book is just repeating the same catch phrases over and over again or "summarizing" a chapter by repeating most of it a second time.
This book could have been less than half the length and it might have been tolerable.

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