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Cable-system owners seem to warm to the message, and to Turner's style as a personal entrepreneur in a gray, corporate...
...vans and portable scaffolding, flushed faces call out hoarsely to all who pass below. "Show us your tits!" Most ignore the demands, but every so often a woman will clamber up onto a van and perform an awkward striptease to the cheers and jeers of the crowd below. One entrepreneur paid for her admission several times by collecting donations in the front of her scoop-neck T-shirt...
Last summer, when Adam Osborne, former computer columnist turned entrepreneur, put his Osborne 1 computer on the market, small had never seemed so beautiful. Despite its graceless design-a cross between a World War II field radio and a shrunken instrument panel of a DC-3-the 24-lb. machine combined most of the features of a fully loaded Apple or Radio Shack computer. Better yet, it was completely portable. Sales immediately took off, and some 30,000 units have been sold to date. Osborne carry-along machines are already being used in courtrooms (lawyers' briefs can be recalled...
...advantages are obvious. No staples, no paper. The merry mailman cannot mangle the thing in your letter slot and twist it into some kind of soft-cover Calder. There may be other benefits as well. Fast information. Ease of illustration. Graphic impact. "Video is the new printing press," Publishing Entrepreneur Nicolas Charney likes to say, but it is not necessary to bury Gutenberg to appreciate the possibilities of magazines on video and to spot, in five new entries, the beginnings of what seems to be a trend...
...make a will on video. Send a valentine. Take an inventory. Now you can even go back to high school. Video Entrepreneur Ted Brown of Torrance, Calif., specializes in the high school market: his small company shoots 110 hours of a school year, then edits the footage down to a tidy 60-min. Videoyearbook. Price per cassette: $60. No lunch money, please...