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What is "ultrapreneuring," and how can it make you rich?It's a new kind of entrepreneurial opportunity that's tailor-made for today's constantly shifting business environment - one in which markets, financing, and technology are born rapidly and disappear rapidly...It's the best route you can take in the 1990s if you want to achieve the highest investment return in the shortest time period - specifically, in three years or less...It's the process of conceiving and forming a company that is, from the outset, "built to sell"; accelerating the growth process of that company far beyond the growth expected from traditional long-term ventures; making your company attractive to one or more predetermined, designated purchasers; getting to the "harvest" or sell-out stage as quickly as possible; and then repeating the process again and again.From the venture capitalist and noted investment consultant who first coined the term "ultrapreneuring" comes this savvy insider's guide to cashing in on the high-reward, high-risk, fast-turnover approach to building and selling a business - one that is making today's smartest and most successful new breed of entrepreneur rich. Written in an easy-to-follow, comprehensive format, Ultrapreneuring delivers useful, specific information and creative problem-solving strategies you can use to determine how temperamentally well-suited you are to each stage of ultrapreneuring, and how to delegate or contract out in instances where you're not; capitalize on rapidly developing - and disappearing - markets and technologies by cashing in on today's hottest "windows of opportunity" while they're still hot; build and lead a smoothly functioning, supercompetent management team that understands, identifies with, and fully supports your get-to-the-harvest-stage-as-quickly-as-possible approach to running a company; exploit profitable new financing methods in today's new money market that aren't offered to just anyone; manage the key operational start-up pha