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Bootstrap Entrepreneur: How Grit, Faith, and Help from a Chippewa Tribe Built a Technology Company
B0BCS3YWBQ epub "Inspiring and heartfelt" Grand Forks Herald He defied naysayers and stood up to bankers. A fascinating history of America's rise to technological leadership, seen through the eyes of someone who helped make it happen. Do you know which midwestern city was the first tech hub, decades before Silicon Valley? Do you know why computer memory, back then, was made by hand? In the early 1970s, John Miller bootstraps a tech company on a remote Native American reservation in his home state North Dakota. In the middle of a recession, out-of-control inflation, and nationwide political unrest amongst Indian American activists. He starts up with no capital. His only product is soon to be replaced by the silicon chip. Thirty years later, Miller sells his company for 18 million dollars. Read more