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...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...
...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...
...entrepreneur arrested after articles marking the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown were posted on his website went on trial for "instigation to subvert state power." Huang Qi's case has drawn international interest because it highlights China's struggle to promote the Internet for commercial purposes while trying to control political content. The trial had to be adjourned when Huang, who is in poor health, collapsed. Foreign observers, as well as Huang's family, have been barred from attending...
...visa application for the third time. Oleg Deripaska, head of the giant firm Russian Aluminum, did not attend the World Economic Forum annual meeting in Davos last week; the group withdrew its invitation after a fellow businessman filed a lawsuit accusing him of bribery and racketeering. Sergei Mikhailov, an entrepreneur who spent a little over two years in a Swiss jail on charges of heading a Mafia family before being released in December 1998 for lack of evidence, raged at a press conference in Moscow late last month: "America is now denied me, Europe is denied me, even Africa turned...