Word: entrepreneurism
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...hard to imagine that Paul Fireman has much in common with Allen Iverson. Fireman is the fleshy 57-year-old entrepreneur who plays golf and goes deep-sea fishing in what spare time he has. Iverson is the prince of the National Basketball Association, a coiled, 6-ft.-tall 26-year-old who spends his spare time playing video games and barking out gangsta rap music...
Meanwhile, Peterman can't help being an entrepreneur--he's been dreaming up future licensing ventures that include "a company that supplies safaris and other adventure travel in the Peterman style" and a TV shopping show. "Not a shopping channel," he says, "but a show done in a Peterman way, like 'shopping the world with J. Peterman.'" The key to such plans, he adds, "is that I remain in control and focused on the Peterman brand...
...some ways, the name brands--not only the Microsofts and Nokias but also the Kodaks and Gaps--are making a devil's bargain. If some entrepreneur has a revolutionary idea for a videophone or an instant tooth flosser, all he has to do is get Wal-Mart to agree to sell it and then get Sanmina to design and build...
...what accounts for all the gloom surrounding the web? Bad business - not bad ideas. Analysts and venture capitalists and investment bankers all collaborated in a massive ponzi scheme - which left regular investors holding the bag. Don't blame the cocky web entrepreneur for squandering your money; blame your investment banker...
When Dave Wameling first heard that someone was building a lake near the desert town of Indio, Calif., he figured it was another case of a misguided entrepreneur spending too many hours in the 110[degree] sun. What kind of pie-in-the-sky promoter would dream up that...