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...Parthus Technologies Private company based in Dublin, Ireland CEO: Brian Long What it does: Makes a chip designed to power a broad range of mobile Internet devices as well as global positioning satellite and Bluetooth, a technology that allows devices to communicate within a 10-m radius Why it is hot: Licensing and royalty revenues are rising because the benefits of licensing IP platforms, including lower costs and faster time to market, are more compelling in an increasingly competitive market www.parthus.com...
...idea of being in a band and making records seemed out of reach to me, Adam, Edge andLarry until we heard the Ramones. Something about their humility and humor struck us when we saw them in Dublin in 1977. They seemed like the antithesis of every other band we went to see where, intentionally or not, you felt like you were peasants. It was a revolution; it felt like our people were on stage. When I was listening to JOEY RAMONE and realizing that there was nothing else that mattered to him, pretty soon nothing else mattered to me. Imagination...
When I was 16, the idea of being in a band and making records seemed out of reach to me and Adam and Edge and Larry until we heard the Ramones. Something about their humility and the humor just struck us when we saw them in Dublin in 1977. They seemed like the antithesis of every other band we went to see, where, intentionally or not, you felt like you were the peasants. In that sense, it was a revolution. More than a musical revolution, it felt like our people were onstage. When I was standing in the State Cinema...
...When I was standing in the State Cinema in Dublin in 1977 listening to Joey sing and realizing that there was nothing else [that] mattered to him, pretty soon nothing else mattered to me. If they remind me of anything now, it's that singular idea. It travels further and deeper than the baggage of possibilities you pick up along...
...have to be a virtuoso, you just have to have great taste. You have to be able to hear it more than you have to be able to play it. Suddenly, the grasp becomes more important than the reach. Suddenly, a bunch of kids from the north side of Dublin who would never have had a chance to get on the musical merry-go-round watched it stop for just long enough to jump on. We were a band before we could play. We formed our band around an idea of friendship and shared spirit. That was a preposterous notion...