Word: ideas
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...earning the team that wrote it the undying devotion of the Internet underground. Jim Clark, who had founded Silicon Graphics, a computer firm known for its workstations, sent Andreessen an E-mail message in early 1994 suggesting that they talk. Using Clark's capital, they founded Netscape, with the idea of becoming a kind of Microsoft of the Internet. Their breakthrough product has been the Internet browser called Navigator...
...companies, including Netscape and Pixar. Doerr says Kleiner Perkins clients have created 150,000 new jobs in the past five years alone and have reinforced America's technological edge. "Some people refer to [IPOs] as a game," Doerr says. "But the notion that an entrepreneur can have a big idea and gain financial independence for his family is at the very heart of the American system of fair play." Echoing that sentiment is Dan Case, chairman of Hambrecht & Quist, a San Francisco venture-capital and investment-banking firm that helped manage the public offerings of Netscape and Pixar Animation last...
...just a nice request and a substantial donation to Taylor's aids charity, AmFAR. (A CBS staff member who used to live next door to Taylor's assistant helped.) "We thought it was such a long shot," says Maddy Horne, CBs VP of current programming. "But she said the idea was charming." CBS wanted a story line about jewelry that carried through the shows, and Liz, no fool, proposed Black Pearls, the name of her latest perfume...
These names, to be sure, do not constitute anyone's idea of a celebrity A-list. It would be comforting to assume that the Collins--Random House imbroglio arose because the publisher finally felt shame at the prospect of putting out more bad prose under a big name. But it is equally possible, as Collins claims, that Random House decided the market for brand-label fiction was collapsing (or at least the market for the Joan Collins brand, once Dynasty left the air in 1989) and that the publisher could never earn back the $4 million it had promised...
...ENJOYABLE PART OF AMERICAN CAMpaigns is watching politicians reinvent themselves. Wealthy political outsider Steve Forbes [NATION, Jan. 29], while not having to reinvent himself, has reinvented the flat tax, an idea brought back to life by Jerry Brown during the 1992 presidential race. Forbes proposes to give every American, from the very poorest to the very richest, a tax break. Where will he get the revenue to run America? By taxing corporations. What a wonderful idea! Tax powerful companies, and give the money to everyone. Why is this rich, conservative Republican touting such a liberal idea? RANDY ROBERTS Raleigh, North...