Word: entrepreneurism
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...Provincial glitch • In our story on dissident Wang Dan, "The Exile and the Entrepreneur" [June 7], we incorrectly characterized Jinan as a province. In fact, Jinan is the capital city of Shandong province...
...Seth Riney, a local entrepreneur and Yale graduate, made a resolution on New Year’s Day of 2003 to question the way America looks at public transportation...
...levy on anyone whose worldwide assets exceed €720,000. That means the values of stock and bonds, bank accounts, real estate - even personal belongings. About 300,000 French citizens and residents are subject to it, and it causes some talented taxpayers to flee. Take entrepreneur Denis Payre. In 1990, he co-founded a French software company called Business Objects. The company quickly took off, and was listed on the nasdaq in 1994. By 1997, Payre was looking to withdraw from the day-to-day business. "I had to travel around the world constantly, and I had married and wanted...
...whether they breached confidentiality agreements by disclosing secrets about proprietary information. Match.com--which is owned by InterActiveCorp., headed by media mogul Barry Diller--has more than 12 million members and dwarfs True.com (which says it has about 350,000 users). But True.com's CEO, Herb Vest, a Dallas entrepreneur with gunslinger instincts, isn't cowering. He fired back two weeks ago with full-page ads in the Wall Street Journal and the Dallas Morning News. The ads reprinted Vest's taunting letter to Diller, in which he denied getting trade secrets from employees and vowed to fight the subpoenas...
...Entrepreneur Beatrice Tarka was commuting between France and California every month and finding the websites on which she booked her flights totally frustrating. So she decided to start her own. The result, mobissimo.com may turn out to be the Google of travel searches: a lightning-fast way to comparison-shop among all the booking services. No selling. No scams. No charge...