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...relentless setbacks have left normally ebullient Silicon Valley dazed and chastened. Among the phrases that venture capitalist Danny Rimer no longer wants to see in business plans are "losses for the next five years" and "recent business school graduates"--which now look suspiciously like the preamble to failure...
...small irony that even as Silicon Valley suffers, much of the heartland still basks in the good times the New Economy has made possible. Throughout the Midwest, consumers have been shrugging off the downturn in stocks and taking out home-equity loans to finance remodeling, or a new car or a European vacation. "There's not a chance this boom is over," says Diane Swonk, chief economist for Bank One in Chicago. "Consumer attitudes are high in the face of high oil prices, stock-market volatility and even election rhetoric. Most Americans live on Main Street, not in Silicon Valley...
Stanford Business School and Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley, which are both precipitously close to Silicon Valley, felt the sharpest drops--more than 20 percent since...
...Survivor-in-space show was being pitched by Dreamtime Holdings, a Silicon Valley media company that had already signed an agreement with NASA to fly high-definition TV equipment aboard the space station and then market the images that were produced. With NASA apparently behind Dreamtime's new idea, no fewer than three major networks--CBS, ABC and Fox--were said to be interested...
Conventional fraud investigations usually take six months to a year. But Internet fraud often wraps up in less than a week. The electronic trail is that clear--far easier to trace than the paper trail of the old economy. Last year Silicon Investor, based in Seattle and owned by Go2net, reprimanded Lebed for "violating the terms of his membership" (which can mean anything from spamming to being abusive to going "off topic" on message boards). The last time he posted a message to the site was July 17, 1999. He then apparently gave up and moved to the less regulated...