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...sampling David Boyum took Matt Panarese. 15-12, 15-3, 15-3. Chip Robie routed Andujaar Malik, 15-12, 15-3, 15-6, Mitch Reese, edging Robie for the least point-allowed award, ran through Randy Smith, 15-4, 15-8, 15-8. John Dineen dismissed John McCracken, 16-15, 15-8, 15-10. Jim Lubowit/ left Greg Lut/ on the street corner, 15-9, 15-7, 15-9. Peter Dineen progressively dismantled Andy Sockelow...
Entrepreneurs like Kloss often move restlessly from one field to another, starting new companies like an industrial Johnny Appleseed. S. Allan Kline, 61, is a physicist by training, so it is not surprising that he helped found Xicor, a company that makes memory chips for computers. Less expected was his development of a nutritional snack. New Generation Foods, which he founded in 1977, last year sold $3.6 million worth of Spicer's WheaTwists, a low-calorie, high-protein snack chip. Quips Kline: "I'm in the chips business: one edible, one inedible...
Once the risk takers have established their firms and developed new customers, they face inevitable challenges from older and bigger companies that are attracted to the growing markets. The semiconductor industry shows what can happen. Intel in Santa Clara invented the first memory chip in 1968. Then American giants such as Motorola and Texas Instruments jumped into the market. After them came the Japanese, who now control 40% of the business for the most, popular size, the 16K memory chip...
Valentine mentioned the company to A.C. Markkula, 40, a former marketing manager at Intel, a computer-chip manufacturer. When Markkula offered his expertise and $250,000 of his own money, Jobs and Wozniak made him an equal partner. Markkula helped arrange a credit line with the Bank of America and persuaded two venture capital firms to invest in Apple...
...Everyone one the team trained very hard all season I was upset I lost personally, but more than that I felt I lot the team down, that I let Chip and Mitch down...