The River - Sixty Years of Navigating Businesses - PREORDER, Paperback

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Carl Powell never imagined the wild river he would travel, nor that he would start, or work in, so many different businesses. One after another, he would startup, learn, and close. Learning valuable lessons each time. This is not a Path to Success book. It is reality. It’s based on real history and real businesses that thrived, struggled, succeeded, and failed. 

From childhood resale schemes through forty ventures, and more changes than most people ever know — Carl spent a lifetime building businesses. Not all of them made it. A few he’d have been perfectly happy to keep small, if the next idea hadn’t come knocking.

This isn’t a get-rich story. It’s an honest one — about the pull to build, the cost of never sitting still, and the hard-won lessons hiding inside every win and every loss. Part memoir, part field guide, it’s the book Carl wishes someone had handed him at the start.

Whether you’ve started ten companies or are working up the nerve to start one, you’ll see yourself somewhere in these pages — and you’ll come away knowing you’re not the only one who can’t stop building.

Follow Carl through smooth water, white-water rapids, sharp turns, and unexpected falls through life and business. It’s a journey you will not soon forget.