Word: entrepreneurism
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...serious restaurants and community theaters, ubiquitous brew pubs and coffee bars. Inevitably, a cottage industry is springing up to service the newcomers. At least four recent books promise to teach cityfolk how to find the village of their dreams (Moving to Small Town America, Small Town Bound), and one entrepreneur has a company, the Greener Pastures Institute, that helps urbanites engineer the great escape...
...cheerful entrepreneur said his recent success is less a result of savvy business practices than of the city's warming business climate...
Although the Planet Hollywood business may look like just another indulgence of an eclectic entrepreneur, it ties into other businesses, including the News Corp. investment. In the Middle East, Alwaleed is the producer of top Arabic recording artists, including Najwa Karam and Kathem al Saher, and he has a major share in one of the most popular Arabic satellite TV networks, called Arab Radio and Television. Planet Hollywood is a great place to promote music and television stars...
...Harvard-schooled entrepreneur of impressive means was not the sort of beau Dorothy Zauhar thought herself fated to find. The daughter of impoverished heavy-drinking parents, Zauhar, 59, recalls sleeping nights in a car in a junkyard. She was removed (along with her four brothers and sisters) from her parents' custody when she was five. Zauhar spent the next five years in a Duluth, Minn., orphanage until a loving foster family was found for her. At 20 she married a TV repairman. They were divorced in 1982 after the couple had had three children...
...this sounds too good to be true now, it seemed downright ludicrous in 1991, when flamboyant media entrepreneur Chris Whittle announced his grand plan to build, by 1996, a nationwide chain of 200 private schools to revitalize American public education--for $2.5 billion. Because Whittle's communications company all but imploded in 1994, the Edison Project was radically scaled back, leaving education experts skeptical, lenders leery--and Larry Vaughn in a precarious position...