Word: entrepreneur
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...nature. I do not think any of us is so naive as to believe that ratings are not a factor. And ratings are up." CNN executives counter that the ratings boost may be offset by the costs of live coverage. Still, the network's formula is working: Atlanta Entrepreneur Ted Turner announced last week that his empire had made a profit last year for the first time since he launched...
...York City-based Reporter-Researcher Elaine Dutka interviewed music-industry performers, critics and producers in an effort to put the Jackson phenomenon in perspective. Says she: "Jackson is a master entrepreneur. He has an uncanny sense of what the public wants and surrounds himself with top-notch artists and advisers...
...Instead of waiting years for a firm to repay investments in the form of profits, an entrepreneur can sell future earnings to outsiders in the form of shares. In a rising stock market, investors are willing to pay a premium for the anticipated returns from young, fast-growing companies. That is why firms like Diasonics, which makes medical diagnostic equipment, can go public at a per-share price equivalent to 70 or more times its current income at the same time that General Motors stock is selling for only about six times its net profits per share...
Long before an entrepreneur can go public, he needs the private help of venture capitalists, underwriters and assorted ground-floor investors. They are the dreammakers whose cash and advice can mean the difference between survival and collapse for a fledgling company. They often risk big money, but with luck and savvy they can earn huge rewards. Four successful financiers who have helped launch small companies...
Perhaps some entrepreneur will try to revive the genre of last words by enlisting videotape, a newer form of theater. Customers could write their own final script - or choose appropriate last words from the company's handsome selection ("Pick the goodbye that is you"), and then, well before the actual end, videotape their own official death scenes. The trouble is that most people tend to be windy and predictable when asked to say a few words on an important occasion. Maybe the best way to be memorable at the end is to be enigmatic. When in doubt, simply mutter...