Word: entrepreneur
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...bubble of Harvard Yard,” Hadfield says. He added that his and Grimeland’s unique backgrounds lend their ticket “a fresh perspective that can shake the UC out of its rut.”Convincing Hadfield, a 23-year-old British entrepreneur, to enroll at Harvard was a slightly easier endeavor than the high-stakes expeditions Grimeland has undertaken in the past. The Norwegian native, a corporal in a branch of the Norwegian Special Forces that he says is equivalent to the American Navy SEALs, has served less than one semester...
While working with software-based firewalls--layers of protection that block junk e-mail and attacks on computers from hackers and viruses--Xie noticed that those programs slow down networks. So, like a true Silicon Valley entrepreneur, he retreated to his garage in his spare time and started working on a new approach. He envisioned a remote piece of hardware that screened Internet content and didn't interfere with application software. In 1997 Xie, an engineering graduate from Tsinghua University in Beijing, launched the network-security company NetScreen, which was eventually acquired by Jupiter Networks. That success allowed...
...problem. Estens might be crafting a game plan to outwit a Canberra bureaucrat or thinking of a way to motivate a juvenile criminal offender; he might be trying to understand the power structure in a small town or finessing a schmooze assault on a CEO target. This social entrepreneur finds the wee, small hours a bountiful period for clarifying ideas about his self-appointed mission: to get Aboriginal people into jobs, and to keep them there. If you offer ironbark-sized Estens your hand, he'll gently squeeze it; if you lend this salesman an ear, he'll bash...
...involvement in online pornography and her investment in a company that made adult videos--activities that, ironically, have fewer legal encumbrances than gambling. But by the time she joined up with Dikshit and Bhargava, she had severed those ties. "She's not a porn queen. She's an entrepreneur," Bhargava told TIME...
Well, no. Owner James E. Murray is not so much a misunderstood genius as a friendly entrepreneur, and has no plans to move to Argentina. Yet Murray does run an efficient operation, posting strict rules meant to keep business flowing during typically packed rush hours at his Harvard Square institution. And, in a world where one can barely look at a Pez dispenser or Junior Mint without memories of Jerry and the gang, he inevitably invites comparisons to the most feared soup artisan of the “Seinfeld” New York...