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...while you're cutting down on vice, quit smoking too with Harvard Pilgrim Health Care's Freedom from Smoking Program (Harvard Vanguard Medical Association, 1611 Cambridge St.; 731-7311; $75 for members, $85 for nonmembers). The program includes seven 90-minute group sessions where about 14 people explore their reasons for quitting together. Each addict develops a personal plan, which usually involves heavy patch usage. Try the cold turkey group to break the habit together on the third session. Everything is more fun when you have company...
...Thank goodness Physical Phyllis quit smoking (731-7311)--now she can scale the wall at Boston Rock Gym (781-935-7325) without all the huffing and puffing! A yummy wrap at The Low-Fat-No-Fat Gourmet Cafe and Juice Bar (932-7676) finishes the afternoon off right...
They skipped spring break--and most of their classes--to finish their plan. In May 1998 they secured VC funding. The next month, they quit Stanford. "It wasn't a hard decision," says Lefcourt, sitting in the company's office, which is luxurious by start-up standards. "The things I was trying to get out of business school I'm getting right here...
...three friends have been in the same city for only 12 hours. Thomas moved here from Germany. Luis quit his job in Colombia. Amar arrived this morning from Tokyo via Vancouver. Now they are sitting at Elroys, a restaurant on a deserted block in San Francisco, talking about the business they are starting together. "We're so happy right now," Thomas says. "This is an adventure. We're jumping into the cold water, and it feels great." It's surprising that he doesn't go for a Gold Rush analogy, as people here tend to do once per conversation. Surprising...
Kaushik soon landed a job at Oracle, one of the Valley's blue-chip firms. Two years later, he quit to take a job at a hot start-up called CrossWorlds Software. Had he stayed at Oracle, "I would have made a lot of money. Not multimillions, but not pocket change either." Kaushik left CrossWorlds after a year--the company has yet to have its IPO--to start his own dot.com with three friends. "I thought starting my own company would complete my contribution to the world and my profession," he says. But after three months of trying to raise...