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...employee hands-on time 80%. While setup costs for a large company can run from $100 million to $200 million, the efficiencies can amount to 1% of revenues (that's theoretically around $100 million at M&S), says TI's Slinger, which supplied Marks & Spencer. "Companies are talking about payback for the investment in one to two years, even months," he notes...
...also about Amis, and the predicament of being famous in a celebrity-obsessed age. Like the real royal family, he has seen details of his personal life - failed marriage, broken friendships, dental problems - chewed over obsessively by the jaundiced curs of the British press. Now it's payback time. Yellow Dog may not be the deepest, most Booker-worthy novel Amis ever wrote, but it's such nasty, inventive, satisfying fun that his critics will be panting with envy...
...desperate for financing. Four years ago, a typical $100,000 angel investment would have bought a 0.5% stake in a new company. Now the same investment probably buys a 2% to 5% stake, and you're investing at the bottom of the cycle. Don't expect a swift payback, however. Angel investments may remain illiquid for five to 12 years, which could encompass two or even three economic cycles. But the odds of long-term success are best if a company starts during a recovery and finds its footing before the next downturn. (Fees for angel funds...
...knows who was responsible for the attack. Some of the bystanders surmised it may be payback for Jordan's offer of asylum for Saddam's daughters. Others though it was just deserts for their neighbor's alliance with the U.S. A bearded old man said he didn't care why, though he firmly believed it was pro-Saddam guerrillas. "Look at what they've done, why did they do it here?" he lamented. "The mujahedeen could have done it somewhere else. The only dead are Iraqis...
Wall Street analysts are not exactly an endangered species. But their numbers are in steep decline, and that's great news on two levels: it's wonderful payback for all the bogus advice many of them gave in the late '90s, and more important, it offers new advantages for investors who like to fish for bargains among the stocks of small companies...