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...joints. And, yes, he lives in a house with no wife, no kids, no dog and hardly any furniture. "It's pretty sloppy," he offers. But Unz, 37, does have a hobby: attempting to turn public policy upside down. Over the past eight months, the multimillionaire Silicon Valley software entrepreneur has spent $1.2 million--more than half of it his own money--to pass a ballot initiative that would all but abolish bilingual education in California...
...doing it on someone else's terms. Instead, Silberstein is becoming an entrepreneur, starting a new company, Idiom Technologies, Inc., with several college friends...
...trend go? If busy consumers hire a maid to clean their homes, wondered entrepreneur David MacKay, wouldn't they pay someone to come over and make dinner? Voila, the Personal Chef Association was born. Formed in 1991 with five chefs, the organization has mushroomed to 1,400, with 10 to 20 customers each. These culinary fairy godmothers prepare custom meals that cost about $7 to $8 a person, and need only a quick, 15-min. warm-up in the oven. "It's a service whose time has come," says MacKay. "What's for dinner is a problem in this country...
CITA currently has four clinics in the U.S., all of which are affiliated with major hospitals, and charges $6,800 per treatment. But it is not the only game in town. Storefront clinics, using variations of CITA's patented procedure, have sprung up across the nation, and a California entrepreneur is selling franchises for at-home detox centers for $1,000 apiece...
...Some entrepreneur should organize a service that would pair off people talking to themselves, a buddy system that would allow them to go on with their soliloquies but would let them appear, as they walk down the street, to be conversing with each other. Many marriages go on for years along these lines...