Blueprint to a Billion: 7 Essentials to Achieve Exponential Growth (edit title)

Shelfari edited the description of Blueprint to a Billion: 7 Essentials to Achieve Exponential Growth Friday, July 31 2009.

• Praise for BLUEPRINT TO A BILLION "A wonderful, well thought out analysis of entrepreneurship and leadership of a growth company." —Howard Lester, Chairman, Williams-Sonoma, Inc. "If you dream about growing your business to a billion, this is a fascinating down-to-earth study that you must read. Apply the seven essential principles to your business and you are off and running. Learn about strategy, growth, leadership, team building, and a whole lot more." —Joe Scarlett, Chairman of the Board, Tractor Supply Company "Blueprint to a Billion is a well-researched and thoughtfully written book that quantifies the growth pattern of America's highest growth companies." —Professor John Quelch, Senior Associate Dean, Harvard Business School "Eighty percent of the top-performing stocks in the last twenty years were small entrepreneurial companies that had an IPO in the prior eight years. Blueprint to a Billion tells you the seven key things these innovators did in common to become America's greatest growth companies." —William J. O'Neil, Chairman and Founder Investor's Business Daily, www.investors.com "Thomson has written a masterful work that will catalyze, empower, inspire, motivate, and illuminate entrepreneurs, investors, and policymakers. The world needs this book and will profit from it in manifold ways." —David M. Darst, Managing Director, Individual Investor Group Chief Investment Strategist, Morgan Stanley

Shelfari edited the contributors of Blueprint to a Billion: 7 Essentials to Achieve Exponential Growth Saturday, July 25 2009.

• Added a contributor: David G. Thomson: (Primary Author)

Shelfari edited the first sentence of Blueprint to a Billion: 7 Essentials to Achieve Exponential Growth Thursday, July 16 2009.

• The odds are one in 50 that an idea becomes a business, one in 20 that a funded business sees an initial public offering (IPO) and, finally, one in 20 that a public company achieves $1 billion revenue.1