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Joseph DeSena Discusses Decision To Give Up Pool Business And Take On Wall Street

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  • Date Added : 3/6/2006
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Joseph DeSena

  • Managing Director, Collins Stewart Tullett
  • male
  • Caucasian
  • 1968 (Age: 56 years old)
  • Joseph DeSena - Lecture - Personal Stories of Entrepreneurship
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Biography

Joseph DeSena has been an entrepreneur since the age of eight. From selling fireworks at age 8 to building a t-shirt business in high school to building a multimillion dollar pool business in college to creating a Wall Street trading firm that was sold to Tullett Prebon, DeSena is a living definition of the word 'entrepreneur'.

Joseph DeSena received his undergraduate degree from Cornell University.

So, the pool business is growing, we are in the fourth year, I'm about to graduate and I realize wow, I'm short, must have been short 15 credits or 12 credits, so my last semester I had to take 27 credits I think, but that was not unusual for somebody who was, I mean I was working as I said 20 hours...(Full transcript available to logged in subscribers.).

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Video 1 of 10 Joseph DeSena Discusses Personal Background and Entrepreneurial Beginnings
  • Joseph DeSena - Lecture - Personal Stories of Entrepreneurship
  • 3/6/2006
  • Joseph DeSena
  • 4 min. 9 sec.
Video 2 of 10 Joseph DeSena States Persistence and Service are Key To Success
  • Joseph DeSena - Lecture - Personal Stories of Entrepreneurship
  • 3/6/2006
  • Joseph DeSena
  • 3 min. 7 sec.
Video 3 of 10 Joseph DeSena Discusses Decision To Attend Cornell and Balancing Startup Business With Education
  • Joseph DeSena - Lecture - Personal Stories of Entrepreneurship
  • 3/6/2006
  • Joseph DeSena
  • 2 min. 35 sec.
Video 4 of 10 Joseph DeSena States Importance of Being Service Oriented
  • Joseph DeSena - Lecture - Personal Stories of Entrepreneurship
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  • Joseph DeSena
  • 1 min. 55 sec.
Video 5 of 10 Joseph DeSena Discusses Decision To Give Up Pool Business And Take On Wall Street
  • Joseph DeSena - Lecture - Personal Stories of Entrepreneurship
  • 3/6/2006
  • Joseph DeSena
  • 5 min. 6 sec.
Video 6 of 10 Joseph DeSena States Hard Work Pays Off In The End
  • Joseph DeSena - Lecture - Personal Stories of Entrepreneurship
  • 3/6/2006
  • Joseph DeSena
  • 1 min. 31 sec.
Video 7 of 10 Joseph DeSena Shares Experence at Wall Street Firm
  • Joseph DeSena - Lecture - Personal Stories of Entrepreneurship
  • 3/6/2006
  • Joseph DeSena
  • 2 min. 54 sec.
Video 8 of 10 Joseph DeSena Discusses Building a Trading Company and Selling It Off
  • Joseph DeSena - Lecture - Personal Stories of Entrepreneurship
  • 3/6/2006
  • Joseph DeSena
  • 2 min. 8 sec.
Video 9 of 10 Joseph DeSena States Frustrations in Managing People Led Him To Adventure Racing
  • Joseph DeSena - Lecture - Personal Stories of Entrepreneurship
  • 3/6/2006
  • Joseph DeSena
  • 3 min. 57 sec.
Video 10 of 10 Joseph DeSena States Being Entrepreneurial Is In Your Genetic Makeup
  • Joseph DeSena - Lecture - Personal Stories of Entrepreneurship
  • 3/6/2006
  • Joseph DeSena
  • 3 min. 10 sec.