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...told that the economy is on the verge of another dot-com frenzy at Startup School, a one-day symposium designed to promote start-up companies. Y Combinator, a tech company incubator, teamed up with Harvard Computing Society (HCS) to host the event. The organizers brought cognoscenti including Michael Mandel, the chief economist at BusinessWeek, to lecture to the 500-person audience in the Science Center. Mandel summarized the dot-com boom of the late 1990s in four words: “Boom, bust, boom, bust.” In reference to the number of people in the room...
...firm. The boomers, often disenchanted with corporate America, are spurred by a desire to control their own destiny. In striking out on their own, they feel a powerful sense of liberation and of not giving a rip what others think--two emotions that tend to accompany aging, observes Debra Mandel, a Los Angeles psychologist who counsels seniors. And they recognize that if they are going to take a leap, now is the time...
...satellite providers are pushing the technology hard-40% of households are expected to have DVRs by 2009-while the cable guys are also pitching video on demand (VOD), another technology consumers use to watch content on their own schedule. "VOD is the ultimate worry for us," says Jon Mandel, chairman of the ad-buying firm MediaCom US. "If 25% of people watch TV totally randomly, it becomes much harder to buy, sell and target...
Producer: Janine H. Mandel...
...Daniel J. Mandel...