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...opening price doubled and then some in its first hours of trading as an initial public offering last November, making chairman Steve Jobs, the millionaire co-founder of Apple Computer, into a paper billionaire. Indeed, for the past two years it has seemed that every twentysomething computer entrepreneur who could wear a suit long enough could get Wall Street bankers to sell stock to the public...
...cash in as well. To that end, FutureNet is talking with cable and broadcast channels and several Fortune 20-size companies about financial backing and developmental partnerships. The Tofflers have also recruited as executive partners TV producer Al Burton (Charles in Charge) and the tech-savvy film producer and entrepreneur Jeff Apple (In the Line of Fire). The tone of FutureNet's offerings, Toffler says, will be "not just for the digerati and not heavy. After all," he laughs, "it's television...
Behind that eccentric entrepreneur is a bulldog competitor and a sore loser. Virgin usually wins because Branson can do the mundane spectacularly well and because he has an almost unerring ability to connect with consumers, particularly younger ones. Those business instincts are matched by an ability to motivate people who work for him. And who wouldn't want to--Branson seems hell-bent on making sure that everybody, but everybody, is having as much...
...something that interests me. If I think it is done badly by other people and feel I could do it better. If we can shake up an industry--and have fun doing it." He likes to start from scratch and build a new company his way. "An entrepreneur can go in and put his toe in the water, as we did with one airplane--see whether it is lukewarm, boiling or freezing cold...
Republican Fife Symington has waged two successful campaigns for Governor of Arizona by touting himself as a manager and an entrepreneur. "He told people that he'd run Arizona like a business," says state Democratic chairman Sam Coppersmith. "Every Arizonan has been praying that he didn't mean like his business...