Hopping over the Rabbit Hole: How Entrepreneurs Turn Failure into Success

Praise for Hopping Over the Rabbit Hole

"In Hopping Over the Rabbit Hole, Scaramucci provides invaluable and pragmatic advice on how to start a business, continuously improve your professional acumen, and transform failure into opportunity. An insightful and resourceful guide for any entrepreneur, dreamer, or Presidential candidate."
Mark Cuban, Owner of the Dallas Mavericks & Chairman and CEO, AXS TV

"The most valuable thing Anthony Scaramucci teaches us about success is how important, even necessary, failure is. As he shows, we all face setbacks but it′s how we learn from them that governs whether we ultimately succeed or fail."
Arianna Huffington, Founder, Huffington Post & Founder and CEO, Thrive Global

"A captivating, inspirational, and thoughtful book on dealing with setbacks and successes by a leading entrepreneur, investor, and television host of extraordinary energy, vision, charisma, and brains. A great read!"
General (Ret.) David Petraeus, Commander of the Surges in Iraq and Afghanistan & Chairman of the KKR Global Institute

"All entrepreneurs are risk–takers. There are good days and bad days. But you learn one thing: ′All sickness isn′t death.′ Anthony′s book is a good blueprint for how to recover from those occasional stumbles. It all begins with a plan. A fool with a plan can beat a genius with no plan any day."
Boone Pickens, Chairman and CEO, BP Capital

"This is something exceptionally rare in the entrepreneurship literature: someone telling you how he overcame his problems and made lemonade out of lemons. Anthony has skin in the game. He is funny, direct, deep, and insightful. The book is so gripping you can read it standing up. A must read."
Nassim Taleb, bestselling author of The Black Swan & Distinguished Scientific Advisor, Universa Investments

Introduction 1

Chapter 1 The Shape of Things to Come 3

Seeing Around Corners

Chapter 2 From Peril to Pivot 25

Acknowledging Mistakes & Transitioning Ahead

Chapter 3 Fear. Failure. Focus. 33

Early Lessons in Entrepreneurship

Chapter 4 Snap Out of It! 41

Looking Back to Move Forward

Chapter 5 An Entrepreneurial Blueprint

The Don ts of Building a Business 49

Chapter 6 Holding Grudges

Brush that Chip off your Shoulder 63

Chapter 7 An Introduction to the Important Things in Life 75

The Key to Living a Rich Life

Chapter 8 Partnering Up 87

The J–Curve They Don t Teach

You About in Business School

Chapter 9 Negotiating Need Not Be War 101

Leaving Money at the Table

Chapter 10 Don t Hire Quarterbacks, Hire Linemen 111

The Simple Formula for Building a Successful Team

Chapter 11 Person to Person 121

From Management to Corporate Citizenship

Chapter 12 Image Is Everything 133

Owning Your Message

Chapter 13 Networking, Sprezzatura, & Being Your Authentic Self 141

The Keys to Building Relationships

Chapter 14 Sell without Selling Your Soul 155

Chapter 15 Be Bold Marketing Takes Courage 167

Standing Out by Sticking Your Neck Out

Conclusion I Am Enough 177

Acknowledgments 183

About the Author 187

Index 189

Anthony Scaramucci is an entrepreneur, financier, bestselling author, and philanthropist. In 2005, he founded SkyBridge Capital, a multi–billion–dollar global investment firm and producer of the SALT Conference, the premier thought leadership forum on alternative investments and alternative thinking. Prior to founding SkyBridge, he co–founded investment partnership Oscar Capital Management.

Scaramucci is the co–host of Wall Street Week and a contributor to the Fox Business Network and Fox News Channel. He also hosts a podcast on entrepreneurship called "The Motivation Inside (TMI)." In 2016, Scaramucci was ranked #85 in Worth magazine′s Power 100. In 2011, he received Ernst & Young′s Entrepreneur Of The Year® New York Award in the Financial Services category.

A native of Long Island, New York, he is a graduate of Tufts University and Harvard Law School.