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Many highly successful people are backed long before they are qualified. We tend to view these people as lucky. But the decision to back them is neither an accident nor a mistake and rarely the result of good luck. Drawing from his own business experience, countless interviews with some of tech's biggest innovators and compelling case studies of classic success stories such as Howard Schultz and Elon Musk, Gupta breaks down the qualities of backable people.

Danielle Bernstein spent her youth shopping at discount department stores, getting boozy in suburban backyards, and proposing marriage to every boy she dated. By age 19, she was a college dropout living in a West Village shoebox with three roommates and only six months to prove that her blog, @WeWoreWhat, could become a full blown career...or else board the train back to her mom's house. This Is Not a Fashion Story is the down and dirty tale of how a Long Island-born teenager became one of the most recognizable names in fashion.

By the time he was in Primary 5, Benny Se Teo was packing opium and running the packets to his father's opium den in Chinatown. At 15, Benny had his first puff of pot, then one night, he bought a straw of heroin and his troubles truly began. In jail after his umpteenth arrest, he began to bleed...

David Zimmer ist einer der erfolgreichsten Gründer in Deutschland. Mit seinem Unternehmen inexio verlegt er Glasfaserkabel und bringt vor allem Kommunen in den ländlichen Regionen ins schnelle Internet. Damit macht er Deutschland zukunftsfähig. Jetzt hat er sein Unternehmen für knapp über eine Milliarde Euro verkauft. Er hat sein Startup damit zu einem "Unicorn" gemacht. So nennt man junge Unternehmen, die einen Milliardenwert erreichen. Für seine unternehmerische Leistung wurde er "Entrepreneur des Jahres".