Word: entrepreneurism
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...occurred to Kopelman--a twenty-something University of Pennsylvania grad and high-tech entrepreneur--that online auctions had a flaw. They didn't work well for mass-produced items whose value was certain. So he decided to create an e-tailing site called "ebazon." Like eBay, it would connect individual buyers and sellers to trade low-cost, used goods. Like Amazon, it would offer simplicity of use and fixed prices...
...Tibet itself. The region received roughly zero non-Tibetan visitors at the start of the last century, but last year 420,000 Chinese tourists inhaled its thin air, up almost 50% from two years earlier. That means opportunity to people like Ouyang Xu, a cocky 33-year-old entrepreneur who opened the Himalaya Travel Agency last year, and took 700 Chinese to Tibet in six months. They multiply the impact of the many Chinese who have moved to Tibet in the past decade and now constitute more than half of Lhasa's population. Tibetan exiles argue that the influx dilutes...
Allow me to quote from the promotional blurb: "Jenna and Gina - two sexy sisters and the daughters of a wealthy entrepreneur - decide that television programming is their true calling. So with daddy's bank check they take over a fledgling public access channel, uplink it to a satellite and turn it into Flesh TV. All erotic. All the time...
...some South Koreans have found that cyberspace can be a place for healing. In June last year, a fire incinerated a kindergarten holiday camp near the west coast, killing 19 children. The tragedy shocked many South Koreans, including entrepreneur Shin Yoo Jin. Shin is building an elaborate three-dimensional cybercity called Dadaworld, where you can shop, visit an art gallery or a police station, even do the macarena. He decided to add a virtual memorial to the dead children...
...Zhang's attitude toward his work is decidedly sober. He must lead cast and crew through the grueling 150-day, 7-a.m.-to-midnight production schedule, slated to finish at the end of January. This afternoon, they are filming in Hengdian TV & Movie City - a local entrepreneur's attempt to build a Hollywood of the East, about a three-hour drive from the historic city of Hangzhou. Shooting stops for no one. Lights are rechecked; random crew members scurry out for cups of hot water or to make urgent transpacific calls on their cell phones. Action director Tony Ching shows...