Word: entrepreneur
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...realm, the $550 million Stratosphere Tower, Hotel and Casino that rises 1,149 ft. above Las Vegas like a gleaming blue syringe in the neon night sky. For a moment, his taste of triumph is soured by a nagging memory. "A few days ago," the 54-year-old entrepreneur says, "I had a nightmare that the tower was cracking and starting to lean. Luckily, I woke up before it fell over. Which I guess means something is going on self-consciously...
CompuNet has been open for business only six months but already has 2,000 paying customers. "Chinese youth can accept this quickly," says CompuNet co-founder Zhang Shuxin. "You just need a good way to introduce it." Zhang, a 33-year-old entrepreneur, caught the online bug while touring America in 1994, and has picked up a few high-caffeine marketing techniques. In January she opened the Cybercafe, a night spot in the lobby of the Beijing Concert Hall where both the wired and the wannabes gather to exchange E-mail and breathe the Internet's libertarian...
...position, named for New York entrepreneur Morris Wasserstein, will be funded by a $2.3 million grant from Wasserstein's family...
...nearly 90 minutes, U.S. Rep. Robert K. Dornan (R-Calif.), Sen. Richard M. Lugar (R-Ind.), Illinois entrepreneur Morry Taylor and former Ambassador to the United Nations Alan L. Keyes '72 answered questions posed by Novak and audience members, discussing everything from trade policies to future Cabinet appointments...
...helped finance dozens of new companies, including Netscape and Pixar. Doerr says Kleiner Perkins clients have created 150,000 new jobs in the past five years alone and have reinforced America's technological edge. "Some people refer to [IPOs] as a game," Doerr says. "But the notion that an entrepreneur can have a big idea and gain financial independence for his family is at the very heart of the American system of fair play." Echoing that sentiment is Dan Case, chairman of Hambrecht & Quist, a San Francisco venture-capital and investment-banking firm that helped manage the public offerings...