Word: firms
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...learn about the world, a way to come out of his shell, a way to build his network of elite supporters. "One of the first things he did was ask me about my life," says John Roos, a Bradley fund raiser and partner at a powerful Silicon Valley law firm. "Who I was, what I thought was important. I was extremely surprised...
...just design and marketing. He's a very efficient operator," says Edward Scheetz, a partner at real estate investment firm Northstar Capital, which, with help from financier George Soros, has shelled out a few hundred million dollars for a majority stake of the newly incorporated Ian Schrager Hotels. For instance, nearly everything in your room, from sheets and towels to toilet brushes, is for sale. Schrager's even giving thought to opening stores to sell these wares. And he leases in-house restaurants and bars, which can typically be a major drag on hotel earnings...
Obviously, the already marked speedup in the pace at which business operates will continue. Says Tapan Munroe, an economics professor at the University of San Francisco, who has his own consulting firm: "We're talking about product life cycles of two to three years or even less. We're talking about industry life cycles of less than a decade." Newman notes that this hectic pace poses "a massive challenge for people with existing successful businesses," whose "natural tendency is to focus on what has made the business successful." They are vulnerable to competition from "upstarts" who "have the advantage...
...comfortable for a while," says John Baugh, senior analyst at Wheat First Union in Richmond, Va. But venture capitalists don't seem to believe it. In six months they have poured $200 million into start-ups with names like Furniture.com and Living.com In July, Ethan Allen, the Danbury, Conn., firm that has furnished upper-middle-class American living rooms for 67 years, decided to buck conventional wisdom and open an online store this fall...
...using its amped stock to merge with the Yahoo-wannabe Excite. The match was hailed as a commonsense combination of access and content -- "The Media Network of the Next Century" -- and the value of the two companies soared on the prospect of a broadband portal. Doerr's firm Kleiner Perkins was at the center of the deal, having helped launch both companies (which not so coincidentally were across the street from each other in Redwood City, California). More...