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...regulations that have traditionally defined which companies can enter which communications businesses, setting up a free-market free-for-all. Local phone companies, for example, will no longer have a monopoly on providing phone service in their areas. From now on anyone--cable company, long-distance provider or gutsy entrepreneur--can enter the market as well. In return, the local Bells, once they face competition in their home market, will be allowed to compete against AT&T, MCI and Sprint in the lucrative long-distance business. And any of these companies, technology permitting, will be able to cross over into...
Rhonda M. Johnson, a Somerville entrepreneur, visits Cybersmith several times each week. She says she is creating a page on the World Wide Web to test public response to an idea for a company...
...White House photographer are shooting pictures for this event." One project organizer told TIME that Vice President Al Gore's office notified "24 Hours" officials in advance that the White House wanted to sign the bill on February 8: "They want to surf our site live." Rick Smolan, the entrepreneur behind the event, told TIME that the timing of the Internet protest is "in some ways incredibly fortunate because it will show what the world would be like without this kind of connectivity...
...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...