Word: money
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...certain, though, that the sudden prominence of so many peach-fuzz millionaires has not raised the angst quotient among the parents of my younger friends. Twenty years ago, baby boomers were written about as if every one of them had as a life goal making enough money to accumulate the same superfluous material objects that everyone else had. Now that those boomers are feeling an occasional twinge in the lower back as they take that big step up into the driver's seat of the sport-utility vehicles they worked so hard to acquire, along comes another generation known...
...feed commodities online. On average, says Zaitz, Farms.com has more than 40,000 unique visitors a month. During the past year, the site has held in excess of $2 million worth of auctions of livestock and commodities. Zaitz, who has invested more than $1 million of his own money in his venture, expects revenues to increase tenfold this year...
Moses Ma, founder of BusinessBots, based in San Francisco, which is developing smart software for e-markets, says B2B resembles the California Gold Rush. During the Gold Rush, the only ones assured of making money were the obscure shopkeepers who sold the prospectors their shovels, clothes, pots and pans. In the case of B2B, it's companies like Tradex Technologies, Extricity Software Inc. and BusinessBots. They sell the glue (in the form of hardware, software and services) that links individual businesses to their suppliers, customers, partners and distributors. "The true value in B2B is when...
...corporate procurement. The company believed that a competitor planned to build a semiconductor-manufacturing plant (also known as a fabrication plant) on its premises, thereby reducing product-development time by half. "We needed to compete or we would get killed," says Marciel. Adaptec couldn't invest the time or money in building its own plant (which on average costs $1.3 billion and requires more than a year to complete), so the company focused on cutting the fat from the communications and ordering processes used with its overseas strategic partners. The system, says Marciel, was built on a complicated and arcane...
...firm, Freeman Spogli, in 1989, which unloaded the struggling company on Austria Tabakwerke, a government-owned firm that bought Head to try to keep its manufacturing jobs in Austria. "They did even worse," says Johan Eliasch, a Swedish merchant banker who took over the company in 1996. "They threw money at it, and the company ran up huge losses. Finally, they said, 'Enough is enough...