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...which in the corporal world is so elusive as to often be downright fictitious. Though the scenery undoubtedly changes with the century, (by societal standards, "making it" is no longer measured by indoor plumbing and a fashionable buggy, but by a Mercedes and a company in the Valley--Silicon, of course), the latent content of the Dream remains the same. It's a rags-to-riches story, where ambition and fate collide in the Promised Land and instantly propel some lucky Nobody to the status of a Very Wealthy Somebody...
...divide between the old and new guards in Miami is that many if not most of the latter were born in the U.S. While their parents still dream of Havana, the kids are far more concerned with using their computer and business skills to turn Miami into "Silicon Beach." That indigenous culture has been dubbed Generation n, after a Miami-based magazine run by Cuban-American Bill Teck. Most of the new guard is willing to go along with the American mainstream, which, in recent polls, believes the U.S. should scrap its 39-year-old trade embargo against Cuba. That...
...programs have a bad rap from history. It doesn't always have to mean gulags. It can mean fun. What if today's computer-company maxims were propagated with the posters of mid-century? The wags at Modern Humorist (at www.modernhumorist.com this spring) plan to distribute these posters throughout Silicon Valley...
...Street is eager to give them a dime, prompting a flurry of IPO postponements. "You'd be a fool to invest in an e-tailer that sells books today or wants to go into any other well-recognized market," says Michael Moritz, a general partner at Sequoia Capital in Silicon Valley, which launched the popular Internet portal Yahoo. "The large waterfront properties have not only been purchased but developed...
...years old, I don't own a house, I don't own anything! I have a van with 170,000 miles on it. I own a bunch of albums. One of my roommates from college is now almost a billionaire. He became a venture capitalist in Silicon Valley, and now he's going to be worth a billion in a couple of years. And God bless him, it's great. That's what he wanted to do, he set out, and was in the right place at the right time. When I'm hanging out with him, I think, "Goddamn...