CAPITAL INSTINCTS
Life As an Entrepreneur,Financier, and Athlete

by

Richard L. Brandt

The spirit of the Wild West of more than a century ago still lives on in Silicon Valley. It’s a place of pioneers, daredevils, and risk takers. Instead of pioneers moving into a lawless land, acquiring property, and building homes, farms, and ranches in a harsh and untamed environment, today’s western pioneers acquire high-risk capital and build companies within a harsh and untamed business environment. It’s a risky ambition. Pioneering a new industry requires intelligence, reativity, guts, stamina, a strong sense of adventure, and luck. The regulations governing today’s entrepreneurial businesses are still being written. For example, the phenomenon of a flood of young companies hitting the public markets in a massive wave, creating instant millionaires, is a new one. As we have seen in the last few years, it also has its perils.

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