Word: entrepreneur
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...calls, in his charming preppy lexicon, "sourpusses" and "gloomy-doomies." Dole, with his barbed wit and allergy to abrupt innovation, is the most vulnerable to the comparison. "There's been a paradigm shift in politics, and I don't think Bob gets it," says Jan Anton, a California entrepreneur who was the state co-chair for Dole in '88 but is leaning toward Forbes this time. "Dole's a wheeler-dealer. He's just trying to hang on and avoid mistakes. Forbes is an outsider. He has a clear, coherent message, and he has the money to tell his story...
...increasing complexity of their jobs. Running a multimedia conglomerate--trying to combat big, aggressive competitors; weathering the relentless scrutiny of the press--has become difficult, if not impossible, for anyone to do well for very long. Biondi seems to have been the victim of another common business syndrome: an entrepreneur-owner's reluctance to hand over control to a successor. Redstone, who built his fortune from a chain of movie theaters, hired Biondi shortly after acquiring Viacom in a leveraged buyout in 1987. A Harvard M.B.A. and former chief executive at HBO, Biondi had a style that seemed to mesh...
...Channel One News, which sends a daily 12-minute newscast to 12,000 American secondary schools. Since its debut in 1990, Channel One has been a controversial operation, mainly because inside each program it packages two minutes of commercials for products like Pepsi and Reebok shoes. Created by media entrepreneur Christopher Whittle (who sold it last year to K-III Communications), Channel One still raises hackles in some quarters: officials in New York State, for instance, have thus far refused to allow the newscast into schools...
Still, the question is, as a snippy headline in Forbes magazine might ask, "Just What Kind of Return Is This First-Time Political Entrepreneur Seeking for His Money?" Forbes is not a half-in, half-out candidate, like another rich man who ran for President. This week he will announce that he is hiring 500 canvassers to get himself on the New York ballot, making him the only Republican to challenge actively Dole's hegemony in that state. Experts say this effort could cost Forbes as much as $1.5 million. He is also ready to announce an agreement with...
...trip to Cleveland, Ohio, in 1992, he met an elderly man who identified himself as a former Army photographer present at the autopsy of the Roswell alien, performed at Fort Worth Army Air Field. This man, says Santilli, offered to sell the movies he made there. Says the entrepreneur: "The whole thing was just way too fascinating to let go." The mysterious cameraman still declines to reveal himself, though Santilli says, "I think he will step forward within the very near future...