Your First Million: Why You Dont Have To Be Born Into A Legacy Of Wealth To Leave One Behind,New

One of the few Black women to break into the boy's club of Silicon Valley offers her secrets for how anyone can build a legacy of wealth and impact.Having lived nearly her entire life below the poverty line before going on to attain wealth and success as an entrepreneur and investor, Arlan Hamilton knows that money is powerbut not for the reasons most people believe. Money is power, she says, because it provides us with options: to pursue our passions, take risks, and change our situation in life.In Your First Million, Hamilton argues that entrepreneurship is the quickest path to attaining that powerparticularly for those who havent had much of it in the past shows how anyoneno matter what they look like or how much money they havecan tap into all the new tools, platforms, and sources of funding available to get their milliondollar idea off the ground.Readers will learn: how to identify unmet needs in the market, raise money in ways that preserve ownership, choose the right collaborators, create multiple income streams, and turn their unique knowledge and experience into a profitable businesseswhile reinvesting in their communities and empowering others to do the same.If we can change who gets to decide what new ideas are worthy, and who gets to turn those ideas into reality, not only can we change our own circumstanceswe can change the world.