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You Only Have to Be Right Once

The Unprecedented Rise of the Instant Tech Billionaires

by Randall Lane ...

The ultimate insider look at the newest titans of tech—and what you can learn from their successIn 2007, twenty-one-year old David Karp launched Tumblr, a simple micro-blogging platform, on a whim. By 2012, it had become one of the top ten online destinations, drawing 170 million visitors. By 2013, Yahoo had acquired Tumblr for over $1 billion. Just like that, a kid who hadn’t even earned his high ... Read more

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The ultimate insider look at the newest titans of tech—and what you can learn from their successIn 2007, twenty-one-year old David Karp launched Tumblr, a simple micro-blogging platform, on a whim. By 2012, it had become one of the top ten online destinations, drawing 170 million visitors. By 2013, Yahoo had acquired Tumblr for over $1 billion. Just like that, a kid who hadn’t even earned his high
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The Zeroes

My Misadventures in the Decade Wall Street Went Insane

by Randall Lane ...

What Liar's Poker was to the 1980s, The Zeroes is to the first decade of the new century: an insider's memoir of a gilded era when Wall Street went insane-and took the rest of us down with it.Randall Lane never set out to become a Wall Street power broker. But during the decade he calls the Zeroes, he started a small magazine company that put him near the white-hot center of the biggest boom in ... Read more

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What Liar's Poker was to the 1980s, The Zeroes is to the first decade of the new century: an insider's memoir of a gilded era when Wall Street went insane-and took the rest of us down with it.Randall Lane never set out to become a Wall Street power broker. But during the decade he calls the Zeroes, he started a small magazine company that put him near the white-hot center of the biggest boom in
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You Only Have to Be Right Once

The Unprecedented Rise of the Instant Tech Billionaires

by Randall Lane ...

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The ultimate insider’s look at the newest titans of tech, from the editorial team at ForbesSilicon Valley’s new billionaires are an unconventional breed, turning ideas into money at a rate never before seen in human history. Their ascension proves a turning point in how great fortunes are made and how technology disseminates.Among these golden boys are: Elon Musk, billionaire bachelor and founder ... Read more

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The ultimate insider’s look at the newest titans of tech, from the editorial team at ForbesSilicon Valley’s new billionaires are an unconventional breed, turning ideas into money at a rate never before seen in human history. Their ascension proves a turning point in how great fortunes are made and how technology disseminates.Among these golden boys are: Elon Musk, billionaire bachelor and founder
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The Zeroes

My Misadventures in the Decade Wall Street Went Insane

by Randall Lane ...

Narrated by Randall Lane ...

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12 hours 4 min

Magazine entrepreneur Randall Lane had a prime seat at Wall Street's biggest greed fest. The Zeroes is a memoir about the excesses and bad behavior of an outsider who got pulled into a crazy, self-contained world. Among Randall's eye-popping true stories:—How fortunes were made, from the million-dollar score made in the thirty-minute gap between the collapse of the Twin Towers on 9/11, to the man ... Read more

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Magazine entrepreneur Randall Lane had a prime seat at Wall Street's biggest greed fest. The Zeroes is a memoir about the excesses and bad behavior of an outsider who got pulled into a crazy, self-contained world. Among Randall's eye-popping true stories:—How fortunes were made, from the million-dollar score made in the thirty-minute gap between the collapse of the Twin Towers on 9/11, to the man
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The Know-It-Alls

The Rise of Silicon Valley as a Political Powerhouse and Social Wrecking Ball

by Noam Cohen ...

Included in Backchannel's (WIRED.com) "Top Tech Books of 2017"An "important" book on the "pervasive influence of Silicon Valley on our economy, culture and politics."— New York TimesHow the titans of tech's embrace of economic disruption and a rampant libertarian ideology is fracturing America and making it a meaner placeIn The Know-It-Alls former New York Times technology columnist Noam Cohen... ... Read more

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Included in Backchannel's (WIRED.com) "Top Tech Books of 2017"An "important" book on the "pervasive influence of Silicon Valley on our economy, culture and politics."— New York TimesHow the titans of tech's embrace of economic disruption and a rampant libertarian ideology is fracturing America and making it a meaner placeIn The Know-It-Alls former New York Times technology columnist Noam Cohen...
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Argus Developer in Practice

Real Estate Development Modeling in the Real World

by Tim M. Havard ...

Series series Professional and Applied Computing (R0)
This book is a practical guide to using Argus Developer, the world’s most widely used real estate development feasibility modeling software. Using practical examples and many case studies, it takes readers beyond basic training and provides the in-depth knowledge required to analyze potential real estate deals and help ensure a profitable development.Argus Developer in Practice fills an important ... Read more

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This book is a practical guide to using Argus Developer, the world’s most widely used real estate development feasibility modeling software. Using practical examples and many case studies, it takes readers beyond basic training and provides the in-depth knowledge required to analyze potential real estate deals and help ensure a profitable development.Argus Developer in Practice fills an important
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A Brief History of Tomorrow: How The Experts Usually Screw Up (Future Forecasting)

by Jonathan Margolis ...

A fascinating look at the future, as you’ve never seen it. Ten years from now, will we have a tiny personal computer surgically inserted in an earlobe, capable of connecting to phone lines and the internet? Fifty years from now, will atomic-sized robots replace surgeons? A hundred years from now, instead of taking the bus, will we simply teleport to work? It all may sound like impossible science ... Read more

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A fascinating look at the future, as you’ve never seen it. Ten years from now, will we have a tiny personal computer surgically inserted in an earlobe, capable of connecting to phone lines and the internet? Fifty years from now, will atomic-sized robots replace surgeons? A hundred years from now, instead of taking the bus, will we simply teleport to work? It all may sound like impossible science
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The Great Disruption

Competing and Surviving in the Second Wave of the Industrial Revolution

by Rick Smith, Mitch Free, Berndt Leukert ...

The Great Disruption reveals how 3D printing manufacturing will transform the world in the same way that Henry Ford's Model T upended transportation or Gutenberg's printing press started an information revolution. It traces both the impact of this disruption as it rapidly spreads around the world and affects every kind of industry imaginable, while detailing specific steps that can and should be ... Read more

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The Great Disruption reveals how 3D printing manufacturing will transform the world in the same way that Henry Ford's Model T upended transportation or Gutenberg's printing press started an information revolution. It traces both the impact of this disruption as it rapidly spreads around the world and affects every kind of industry imaginable, while detailing specific steps that can and should be
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Assessing Vendors

A Hands-On Guide to Assessing Infosec and IT Vendors

by Josh More ...

Assessing vendors is a tricky process. Large and regulated organizations are forced to demonstrate due diligence in vendor assessment, but often do not know how to do this. This results in a great deal of busywork being required by both the vendors and the organizations. Smaller organizations don't know what to look for and, as a result, often wind up selecting based on price instead of value. ... Read more

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Assessing vendors is a tricky process. Large and regulated organizations are forced to demonstrate due diligence in vendor assessment, but often do not know how to do this. This results in a great deal of busywork being required by both the vendors and the organizations. Smaller organizations don't know what to look for and, as a result, often wind up selecting based on price instead of value.
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Introduction to Deep Learning Using R

A Step-by-Step Guide to Learning and Implementing Deep Learning Models Using R

by Taweh Beysolow II ...

Series series Business and Management (R0)
Understand deep learning, the nuances of its different models, and where these models can be applied.The abundance of data and demand for superior products/services have driven the development of advanced computer science techniques, among them image and speech recognition. Introduction to Deep Learning Using R provides a theoretical and practical understanding of the models that perform these ... Read more

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Understand deep learning, the nuances of its different models, and where these models can be applied.The abundance of data and demand for superior products/services have driven the development of advanced computer science techniques, among them image and speech recognition. Introduction to Deep Learning Using R provides a theoretical and practical understanding of the models that perform these
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Business Leadership for IT Projects

by Gary Lloyd ...

The track record of IT projects is poor. Less than a third of IT projects deliver what they said they would, on schedule and on budget. The major cause of IT project failure is not, as you might expect, poor IT leadership or difficult technology but poor business leadership. One of the reasons for this is that, unlike their IT peers, business managers often get little training or education in ... Read more

$76.99 USD

The track record of IT projects is poor. Less than a third of IT projects deliver what they said they would, on schedule and on budget. The major cause of IT project failure is not, as you might expect, poor IT leadership or difficult technology but poor business leadership. One of the reasons for this is that, unlike their IT peers, business managers often get little training or education in
... Read more
FastLane

Managing Science in the Internet World

by Thomas J. Misa, Jeffrey R. Yost ...

Series series Johns Hopkins Studies in the History of Technology
The unique history and development of FastLane, the central nervous system of the National Science Foundation.Since 2000, the National Science Foundation has depended upon its pioneering FastLane e-government system to manage grant applications, peer reviews, and reporting. In this behind-the-scenes account Thomas J. Misa and Jeffrey R. Yost examine how powerful forces of science and computing ... Read more

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The unique history and development of FastLane, the central nervous system of the National Science Foundation.Since 2000, the National Science Foundation has depended upon its pioneering FastLane e-government system to manage grant applications, peer reviews, and reporting. In this behind-the-scenes account Thomas J. Misa and Jeffrey R. Yost examine how powerful forces of science and computing
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