Word: entrepreneur
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...faster, always faster." He was one of 12 men and four women, mostly in their 30s and 40s, who came from such companies as Ball Aerospace & Technologies, Hewlett-Packard and Tektronix. Someone else wanted to standardize a process at HP, a job he described as "impossible." A brilliant young entrepreneur from Massachusetts said he wanted to become a "better leader and communicator...
...features luxurious fittings, fine wines and what might be described as discriminating prices. It's aimed, says Probert, at "locals who have become more affluent and discerning." It's not just foreign investors who are targeting the city's moneyed class. Prominent Beijing nightlife entrepreneur Henry Lee has just opened Rui Fu, tel: (86-10) 6404 2711. With a tastefully understated interior and a range of expensive tipples, Rui Fu is being heralded as yet another antidote to the tawdry dance clubs that have been a mainstay of the capital's youth-oriented nightlife in recent years. But how will...
...Ibrahim wants to be part of that fraternity. He's a successful London-based entrepreneur whose fortune rests on bringing cell phones to Africa. He sold his company in 2005 with a personal profit of $640 million. Now he's putting $100 million into a foundation that among other things will fund a new annual prize, the richest in the world: the winner gets $5 million spread over 10 years, then $200,000 per year after that for life, plus another $200,000 per year to direct to any cause he or she wants. Who's eligible? A very select...
...what Allah looks like, but the Koran is said to reveal his 99 attributes (often referred to as his 99 names, such as "the Majestic" and "the Timeless"). Each is embodied in a different superhero in a new comic-book series called The 99, created by a Kuwaiti-born entrepreneur...
...dating agencies--wannabe ex-boyfriends and ex-girlfriends can tell their partner it's over without having to say it themselves. You can have it done on TV: on her Oxygen show Breaking Up, Shannen Doherty ends relationships that have gone sour. A lower-profile agent is German entrepreneur Bernd Dressler, nicknamed "the Terminator." He will dump your significant other by phone (the "Let's Stay Friends" call and the more insistent "Stay Away" cost $25 each) or in person ($63). Then there's a less human option: DumpMonkey.com For $24.95, the dumpee gets a 16-in. stuffed monkey...