Word: entrepreneur
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...road to successful self-employment can be a tortuous one. Not everyone is cut out for its uncertainties and do-it-yourself nature. Nearly 2 out of every 3 new businesses fail within five years. The biggest roadblock is financing. According to Venture Economics, a market-research firm, an entrepreneur needs at least $8,000 to start a home-based business, which includes office supplies and equipment but not rent. Starting the same business in prime office space would take at least $50,000 in start-up capital. To launch a retail establishment, such as a bakery shop...
...just that Turner had more to lose; he was also convinced that through some cyclical inevitability he was doomed to lose what he had. "He was hung up on the fact that a lot of people said, 'Well, Ted Turner is the ultimate entrepreneur, and entrepreneurs when they get to $250 million or $1 billion or $2 billion, they crap out, and either they fall to the bottom or they turn their companies over to others,' " says Wussler. "He didn't want that to happen...
Just about every kind of entrepreneur has talked up the emerging opportunities in the new Eastern Europe, but now Colombia's powerful CALI DRUG CARTEL is exploring the possibilities. In October, Czechoslovak authorities seized 100 kg of cocaine hidden in a truckload of Colombian coffee. After the coffee was traced to a Polish ship that had stopped in Colombia, Polish police uncovered another 100 kg in the rest of the shipment, which was sitting in a Warsaw warehouse. U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration officials speculate that the cartel hopes to take advantage of the legal chaos in the region to transship...
Something other than realism is unmistakable from the opening moments of Mt. Morgan. The title refers to an automobile skid in mid-blizzard that has left . the central character, an aging insurance entrepreneur, physically shattered and confined to a hospital bed. Yet this wreckage of a man rises, leaving behind the outline of his slung and plastered body, to pace the stage and engage other characters in conversations he recalls, conversations he imagines, conversations he wants to have, and sometimes conversations he daydreams about in the midst of other conversations...
Hubbard, a gregarious Indiana entrepreneur who ran Pierre du Pont's 1988 presidential bid, points out that those who object to the council's rulings are free to mount challenges in the courts. Hubbard says the council's goal is to improve the nation's competitiveness, not to shelter industry from regulation. "The higher the cost of the regulation, the higher the cost of the product to the consumer," he explains. "Our whole effort is to protect the consumer and the American worker...