Word: spin-off
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...committed at last Friday's Underage Festival in London, but unless you were aged 14 to 19 and had scored one of the 5,000 tickets for the all-day event, mums and dads will never hear of them. Featuring 37 bands over 4 stages, the festival was a spin-off of the Underage club nights, a series of gigs for 14 to 17-year-olds only that have been running in London since June 2006, featuring young British indie bands like The Horrors, Black Lips and the XX Teens...
...director of the social entrepreneur program at the Manhattan Institute, a think tank that promotes civic innovation. You also may be able to do your own thing within an existing nonprofit with a related mission. This could speed your launch, reduce overhead and leave open the possibility of a spin-off down the road...
...Others agree. On Jan. 24, an Eindhoven, Netherlands, spin-off from Philips unveiled plans for its own mass-production facility in Southampton, U.K. The firm, Polymer Vision, will make a 5-in. screen that can be rolled up to the thickness of a cell phone. But even though it announced its factory site after Plastic Logic's, the Dutch company plans to produce at commercial volumes sooner: as early as this year...
...really want your government handling your e-mail?" Public outrage caused the telco fight to fizzle, with many bills getting killed or modified. City wireless is set to become a $1.2 billion market by 2010, according to analyst firm ABI Research; AT&T, Verizon and Sprint Nextel spin-off Embarq are looking to cash in, snapping up their own municipal deals in places like Springfield, Ill., and Riverside, Calif. And Comcast Ventures has invested in BelAir Networks, a Canadian vendor of wireless equipment...
...your parents react to your involvement? WGH: I actually watched “Miss Congeniality” and that movie “Beautiful” with Minnie Driver. I became really obsessed with beauty pageants so I signed up for a bogus beauty pageant. It was a spin-off, like not legit, because you have to pay to get into it. And my mom drove me, but it was supposed to be a statewide thing but there was not a preliminary for it, so you just showed up and were competing for the state title, which is really sketchy...