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...Noir and Syrah vines. He found that lots of people shared his desire for a wine-country lifestyle but lacked the millions of dollars needed to make their dream come true. Tired of his career in software marketing, he quit his job and created Crushpad in 2004 to connect amateur winemakers with West Coast vineyards. It's the best of both worlds. Customers get access to far finer grapes than they could grow themselves, at a fraction of the cost, along with on-site expertise to guide them through the process...
...published a Hong Kong fanzine called Asian Eye, concentrating on action movies by the likes of Jackie Chan and John Woo, which were still found mainly in specialty video stores. That brought him to the festival's attention, though Cowan already knew him as a knowledgeable amateur. "Colin was always more than a fan," Cowan says. "Talking to him in line year after year I realized that he had something special to offer...
...Modena baker, himself an amateur opera singer, the young Pavarotti grew up dreaming instead of a career as a soccer player. Decades later, he would sing his signature tune Nessun Dorma at the inauguration of the 1990 World Cup in Italy, which by many accounts may have been his most widely seen peformance by hundreds of millions of television viewers. His last major appearance was singing at the opening ceremonies of the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin...
...recent years this academic faith has faltered, largely because of the realization that it's tough for the pros to do what it takes to keep markets rational. That's partly because they're human and thus subject to the same decision-making quirks as amateur investors. But the crucial limitation is that the professionals are mostly playing with other people's money. If they go against the crowd, they risk having that money taken away from them before their bets have time...
...combination of content-hungry fans, amateur writers with arguably too much time on their hands, and the Internet as the perfect distribution medium has led to this new Internet phenomenon...