Brewing Up a Business: Adventures in Entrepreneurship from the Founder of Dogfish Head Craft Brewery

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Entrepreneurial dreams do come true! Starting with nothing more than a home brewing kit, Sam Calagione founded Dogfish Head Craft Brewery and made it America's fastest growing independent beer. This unconventional business story reveals how Calagione found success by dreaming big, working hard, and thinking differently-and how you can do it too.

"Rarely is a book as good as a beer but this one is. It's written with humor, humility, and passion, essential ingredients for any entrepreneur."
-Bob Guccione Jr. founder of Spin magazine and Gear magazine

"Brewing Up a Business will inspire both entrepreneurs and aspiring small business people to have the confidence in following their dreams."
-Jim Davis Chairman and CEO of New Balance

"Sam Calagione embodies the spirit of a true Delaware entrepreneur. Starting out as the smallest brewery in the nation, Sam's ambition, acute business sense, and vision have allowed Dogfish Head Craft Brewery to successfully enter an extremely competitive market as Dogfish Head continues to leave an indelible mark on the beer industry."
-Ruth Ann Minner Governor of Delaware

"Everything you want to know about succeeding in business you can learn from beer. At least you can if it's the remarkable story of Dogfish Head Craft Brewery. Brewing Up a Business is like a 'how-to' manual for entrepreneurs. With humor, creativity, and wisdom, Sam Calagione has crafted a new kind of business book that's as unique as his great beer!"
-Joe Calloway author of Becoming a Category of One and Indispensable

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Author: Sam Calagione

ISBN: 0470050454
Number Of Pages: 288

Languages:
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Original Language: English
Published: English

Customer Reviews

My husband LOVES this book
My husband has had dreams of starting a brewery, after getting into home brewing. I bought him this book to help him learn more, and he is constantly talking about it. Now he is looking into more details, and maybe one day soon we will be "Brewing up a Business" as well!

Best Book I've Ever Read
Fantastic book. Well written, interesting, and very insightful. Very motivational as well. I couldn't put down.

Engaging
This book is a wonderful story that reaches outside the world of craft brewing and stokes the entrepreneurial spirit in us all!

Not what I expected.
First of all let me say this book is NOT about brewing beer and has very little to do with the process of opening any sort of beer establishment. It was a little like a high school business book at times. Example - I don't care about how important he perceives monthly employee meetings to be and I certainly don't care to read 5 pages about why he feels this way. I'm not interested in the three steps to creating a business plan or any other "steps" to anything that he often lays out like he's the Warren Buffet of the restaurant industry. Overall however, there are some funny stories and a very few beer related topics that make it a 2.5/5 in my opinion. I probably would not recommend it to a friend.

Excellent! Inspiring!
A fantastic book! The founder of Dogfish Head Craft Brewery writes in a clean, enjoyable style that makes you feel like you're sitting across from a friend, listening to him tell you stories of his adventures. If you're a brewer, business owner, dreamer, or just enjoy a good read, this is an excellent choice.

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Corporate Financial Distress and Bankruptcy: A Complete Guide to Predicting & Avoiding Distress and Profiting from Bankruptcy

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Predict, Avoid, Manage—and Even Profit From—Bankruptcy With this new Second Edition of the first definitive guide This new edition of the premier business failure, insolvency, default, and bankruptcy guide provides financial professionals of every stripe with a master reference to the latest banking, credit, investment, legal, financial, and management thought and practice. To help readers combat corporate distress in the ’90s and beyond, distinguished author Edward I. Altman includes coverage of…

• Unique statistical tools—author-developed techniques for assessing firms’ distress potential, measuring debt price movements, benchmarking debt investor and market performance, establishing the present value of loans, and so much more.
• Junk bonds—Altman revisits this market to provide an in-depth analysis of the role and risk-return trade-offs of this controversial source of finance
• Emerging trends—complete explorations of debtor-in-possession lending, prepackaged bankruptcy, and the epidemic of fraudulent conveyance suits resulting from ill-conceived restructurings
• An evaluation of the Chapter 11 process, now under public scrutiny and criticism
• Bankruptcy reorganization case histories—real-world data to help readers carry out debtor valuation analyses and restructurings, featuring Duplan Corporation and Wheeling Pittsburgh Steel Corporation

With this wealth of authoritative information and practical guidelines, bankruptcy creditors, debtors, investors, and third party professionals will have everything they need to predict, avoid, manage, and profit from corporate distress. "Corporate Financial Distress and Bankruptcy is an excellent analysis of an increasingly important topic. Professor Altman is the premier scholar in this area, and this book is a fitting reflection of that scholarship." —Ben Branch, Trustee Bank of New England Corporation Professor of Finance, University of Massachusetts "Corporate Financial Distress and Bankruptcy is an indispensable resource for all who are interested in bankruptcy. Ed Altman has collected, in a single volume, the history, legislative facts, statistics and analytic methods that I search for time and time again. This book is outstandingly comprehensive and up-to-date." —Martin S. Fridson, Managing Director Securities Research and Economics, High Yield Research Group Merrill Lynch

Author: Edward I. Altman

Edition: 2
ISBN: 0471552534
Number Of Pages: 384

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Capitalist Fools: Tales of American Business from Carnegie to Malcolm Forbes

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Manufacturer: Chatto & Windus

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This story of American business which traces the rise of Malcolm Forbes against the collapse and corruption of American business in the 1970s and the "go-go" years of the 1980s. While many books, from "Indecent Exposure" to "Barbarians at the Gate", have exposed modern business evils, they have treated them as isolated cases, where the men involved were cast as thieves. This is the first look at these evils in context, revealing the larger picture, raging at the decline in business standards, performance and ethics, and concluding with a call to action.

Author: Nicholas Von Hoffman

ISBN: 0701138890
Number Of Pages: 336

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Original Language: English
Published: English

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Forbes Great Success Stories: Twelve Tales of Victory Wrested from Defeat

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Success is even sweeter the second time around

In this inspiring book you will meet twelve extraordinary people–from a software tycoon to the founder of a toy empire–who soared to the top of the business world only to plummet like Icarus from the heights–at which point their real stories, excitingly told in this book, begin. What follows in each case is a remarkable, true tale of despair overcome, confidence reborn, goals redefined, determination rediscovered, and success reclaimed!

Never deterred by minor setbacks, disappointments, or missed opportunities, these business giants faced utter ruin in a bewildering variety of forms, from personal bankruptcy and business failure to devastating illness, natural disaster, and even criminal indictment and incarceration. Yet, each of these modern-day heroes, though forever changed, scarred, and humbled by tragedy, discovered an unfathomable reserve of strength and dedication and rose again.

Prepare to redefine your notion of what it means to overcome any obstacle in your path to success. Prepare to meet twelve men and women–including Donald Trump, Larry Ellison, and Emma Chapell–who will awe you with their courage, inspire you with their vision, and help you find the strength and passion to make your own dreams come true, again and again.

Author: Alan Farnham

Edition: 1
ISBN: 0471383597
Number Of Pages: 288

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Original Language: English
Published: English

Customer Reviews

Okay but there is better
I had already read a couple of books where people had gone through really bad circumstances and turned their bad times into really good ones such as AUSSIE JOHN where he had built a business up only to lose it and ended up living in a motel - and I don't mean the HYATT - rebuilt it and bounced back far better than before.
This book certainly wasn't about people who had wrested victory from defeat, true they had some bad luck but were no where near the bottom of the barrel I don't think any of them even dropped to middle class - better reading would be AUSSIE JOHN or PUSHING THE LIMITS

A Great Gift Book
I gave this book to my father for his birthday--but it was one I had to peek at before I wrapped it. I ended up reading the whole thing. A quick read that inspired me-- it is great to know that successful people have had obstacles to overcome and the rise to the top is not an easy one. I found this a great gift to give to anyone who works in the business profession.

Great book, great format, inspiring down-to-earth examples
I enjoyed the 12 short stories in this book, each one highlighting a businessperson overcoming amazing challenges to become successful (or, if they were already successful when crisis hit, what they did to remain that way). The wide range of professionals presented also shows that the determination and vision of one person can truly make all the difference (albeit sometimes painfully) irrespective of service or industry.

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Tips for Investing From Within an IRA

I don’t know a thing about you but I’ll bet you’re either investing from within an IRA, or considering investing from within an IRA.

How do I know?
Because most of us right now are having to provide investment guidance for our future retirement. This is pretty common since most companies and employers are no longer overseeing employee retirement accounts, and if they are it’s a safe bet that they are looking to discontinue the practice in the near future.

That leaves our retirement safety in our own hands.

Whether your experienced with investing from within an IRA or are looking for information on how it’s done you’ll find these tips useful.

First be very selective when choosing an IRA custodian. These are the individuals, brokerages and bankers that are administrators of IRA accounts. Like anything else not all custodians are equal.

The fact is some are light years ahead of others in there service, experience and know how. Don’t let just anyone oversee your account. You’ll want experience and comprehensive knowledge of IRA’s and the rules and regulations that govern them. Oddly there are actually few custodians that have this type of knowledge.

An example of this is that what you can invest in when investing from within an IRA is surprisingly broad. However most custodians allow only a narrow area of investment.

This is actually because most are only educated on the traditional IRA investment vehicles such as stocks, bonds and certificates of deposit(CDs). You’ll want to find a custodian that allows clients to invest in the full spectrum of possible investments options just as congress intended you be able to. The truth is that many things can be invested in using an IRA. One example is real estate.

In fact real estate is a Little known investment that makes massive use of the tax advantages of IRA’s. And as strange as it may sound most custodians themselves are in the dark as to the rules to investing in real estate. This is one of the main reasons that real estate is not often taken advantage of when investing from within an IRA.

With real estate it’s possible to double or triple the money invested in properties within 1 or 2 years when investing from within an IRA. The tax free and tax deferred advantages of IRA accounts can greatly speed large gains.

But the key to this secret is knowing which real estate is a good investment and which are bad investments, this type of expertise takes years of experience and often comes with some hard knocks.

This is why most custodians and administrators don’t want to deal with real estate. The territory is to foreign to them since most are skilled only in traditional IRA investment options such as stocks and bonds. This brings about the need for a self directed IRA account, with a self directed Roth or regular IRA account you are able to direct your custodian to invest in which real estate you want to invest in.

Some people may have knowledge in this area and are able to analyze properties, do market research and all of the other due diligence necessary to use real estate to build retirement wealth quickly. But most people are not experienced enough in this area,to adequately make use of real estate when investing from within an IRA.

But there’s a secret tactic that smart IRA account owners are using to great advantage.

That tactic is to enlist the expertise of real estate investors who are experienced in using real estate when investing from within an IRA and are willing to show IRA owners the ropes. These investing experts are also rare because just as with knowledgeable custodians, many professional real estate investors have never even heard of using IRA’s to invest in real estate or are unaware how to go about it.

You definitely don’t want the advice of your local Realtor here, only a few seasoned real estate investors can guide you in this area

A final peace of the puzzle that you don’t want to miss is the need for a self directed Roth or regular IRA account so that your custodian and your real estate consultant can work together as a team to grow your investment account.

Now that you’ve discovered these tips for investing from within an IRA you can look into taking advantage of these little known tips for large profits.