Word: entrepreneurism
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...deep trouble. Zhang of Sohu still believes he and his local rivals can survive. "If Yahoo! goes down, Sohu doesn't necessarily follow," says the entrepreneur, who was so enthused with the Yahoo! model that he originally named his company Sohoo! But most of China's Internet leaders are more pessimistic. The three big portals have limited options: merge, tie up with a Chinese conglomerate or sell out to a global buyer. Disgruntled shareholders may force the issue. At some point, argues Mao, "Shareholders will say, 'That's it, baby. The game is over. You leave. I'm leaving...
...swanky convention hall in the center of Paris, French entrepreneur Nicolas Garreau sips his orange juice and curses his lot. It's the March 2001 meeting of First Tuesday - a monthly soirée at which entrepreneurs and venture capitalists exchange war stories and business cards - and Garreau is on the prowl. He needs an investor to provide between $400,000 and $700,000 to launch Goodycash.com, his Internet gambling venture. Garreau casts his eye hopefully around the red-carpeted room, sizing up the dwindling number of investors in dark suits who continue to attend this once red-hot networking...
...realm that promised enormous riches, and the entrepreneur was king. Employees of established companies jumped ship to join the Internet gold rush, their fledgling firms funded by venture capitalists desperate to get a piece of the next big thing. And as those companies listed on the stock markets, financial institutions got in on the act, driving valuations and share prices through the roof. On March 10, 2000, Germany's Neuer Markt, France's Nouveau Marché, Italy's Nuovo Mercato and the granddaddy of the high-tech bourses, America's nasdaq, all reached new peaks. Then the tide turned, taking...
...tell you the truth: I'm sick and tired of older women telling me that I'm going to have to make tough choices, that I can't be Martha the homemaker and Martha the entrepreneur simultaneously. Well, Martha isn't really a homemaker and I don't like crafts. But furthermore, I want to know why the Ann Radcliffe Trust isn't sitting men down and asking them to think about what it means to be superman, how they're going to balance being both dad and executive...
...past year has been rocky for Branson, 50, who still holds the undisputed title of Britain's most absolutely fabulous tycoon. "The entrepreneur in a sweater," as the Guardian newspaper recently dubbed him, owns stakes in hundreds of businesses-from the banal, like Virgin Cosmetics, to the notional, like the spacebound Virgin Galactic Airways-so it's never easy to say if he's up or down. Last March, Branson sold 49% of his Virgin Atlantic airline to Singapore Airlines for a nice $900 million. But his Virgin Trains-about 17% of Virgin revenue-are still notoriously late and slow...