This book would never have been written without the idea and encouragement of Melissa Kanter and the skill of Carlye Adler prying loose my story of the very many mistakes I made, the things I learned, and the strategies I developed from my start-up experiences. The lessons I’ve learned have mostly come from the people I’ve worked with past and present, so I would like to thank everyone who has worked at the four companies for all the experiences and lessons that I have learned and shared in this book. Thank you to my sister-in-law, Linda Blum, for all of her help editing the book, and to Cheryl Knopp for always keeping me out of trouble (in and out of this book). Thank you to my agent, Stacey Glick, and to Tula Weis and Julie Kerr and all the folks at Wiley for believing that there was a book inside me and for making this book better. Thank you to my incredible marketing staff for all their input, cover design, and launch strategy. I would like to thank my awesome assistants, Kelly Kiely and Chana Spielberg, for every day they enable me to do my job, and a special call-out to Chana, who in addition to her day job, took on the challenge of making sure this book was written on schedule. I want to thank everyone at Liquidnet for being the change agents who have done all the hard work to make the global financial industry more efficient for investors all over the world. We are only just beginning….