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Graham is a partner in Y Combinator, a Mountain View, Calif., company that invests small sums of money in LILO-style start-ups and advises them during their ramen days. The difference between a start-up and a small business, by the way, is that a "start-up is designed to grow - it's scalable," said Graham. Compare a hair salon with Facebook. "Hair salons scale linearly," he explained. "You have to do twice as much work to get twice as much revenue." But once Facebook was built? It grew exponentially...
Which do you enjoy more, training or competing? Dave Brown EL SOBRANTE, CALIF...
...complications but discourage management and prevention, IT will help health-care businesses churn out more complications per hour. The fundamental flaw in our current system is that despite decades of debate, no one has an adequate stake in preventing those costly complications in the first place. Steve Brown, WOODSIDE, CALIF...
...there are no cutoffs for the cost of surgery, hospitalization or other care. Prescription drugs are covered. And premiums are lower than those of for-profit plans. If Barack Obama's health-coverage plan is modeled on one like mine, then everybody can win. Phil Bond, ELK GROVE, CALIF...
Tarley filmed herself in her bedroom in Cupertino, Calif., using a computer placed atop several volumes of the Encyclopaedia Britannica. She is one of approximately 3,000 professional and amateur classical musicians in countries from Bermuda to Azerbaijan who auditioned by video in December and January for the YouTube Symphony Orchestra. This groundbreaking ensemble, the first to screen members entirely online, will debut on April 15 at New York City's Carnegie Hall in a concert conducted by Michael Tilson Thomas, music director of the San Francisco Symphony. (Watch TIME's video "A Duet with...