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...further complicate matters, new companies are looking to muscle their way onto the tracks. Italian start-up Nuovo Trasporto Viaggiatori (NTV) is set to launch Europe's first privately operated high-speed service in Italy in 2011, in competition with Italy's former rail monopoly Trenitalia. Headed by Fiat and Ferrari CEO Luca Cordero di Montezemolo, NTV plans to establish a broad network of high-speed Italian services that dovetail with French routes run by SNCF, which owns...
...Haney says. 13 movies later, the writer/producer’s new feature film, “American Violet,” combines political and social advocacy with old-fashioned dramatic storytelling, two cornerstones of Haney’s approach to film.Though he founded his first start-up, Fuel Tech, when he was an 18-year-old freshman in Straus, his film career took years to begin. His first documentary, “Gift of the Game,” explored U.S.-Cuba relations through baseball and Ernest Hemingway. Later documentaries centered on other social, political, and environmental concerns, covering...
...Recent Graduates Committee and helped craft the e-mail—did emphasize the importance of the Harvard name and alumni networks. Minkoff, who switched jobs, said she hated her old job but loves her new one as the editor-in-chief of a start-up Web site. Vacca said the current economic recession also has some benefits, forcing graduates to consider jobs outside traditional industries like finance or consulting and think more broadly about career options. —Staff writer Danielle J. Kolin can be reached at dkolin@fas.harvard.edu...
Graham is a partner in Y Combinator, a Mountain View, Calif., company that invests small sums of money in LILO-style start-ups and advises them during their ramen days. The difference between a start-up and a small business, by the way, is that a "start-up is designed to grow - it's scalable," said Graham. Compare a hair salon with Facebook. "Hair salons scale linearly," he explained. "You have to do twice as much work to get twice as much revenue." But once Facebook was built? It grew exponentially...
Noodleconomics The term ramen profitable was coined by Paul Graham, a Silicon Valley start-up investor, essayist and muse to LILO entrepreneurs. It means that your start-up is self-sustaining and can eke out enough profit to keep you alive on instant noodles while your business gains traction...