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...while some vendors praise Crimson Cash for bringing in new customers, others complain that the start-up costs, transaction fees and time it takes to process sales are too much to bear...
...through groups called future funds. Members pool their money--anywhere from $125 to $1,000--and then study proposals and award grants. So far, the idea is paying off, drawing dollars into community initiatives while priming young professionals for big-bucks giving down the line. Members often prefer start-up projects or edgy endeavors--as in Greensboro, N.C., where they funded gay bingo and a wireless-access corridor. Some groups even include networking (and romancing) amid the altruism--a decent return on a worthy investment. --By Esther Chapman
Cell phones are usually seen as the enemies of good driving, but a new service could make them a motorist's best friend. Nextel has teamed with start-up televigation of Sunnyvale, Calif., to offer on its java-and GPS-enabled phones turn-by-turn onscreen directions along with a computerized voice that speaks the driving instructions out loud. The service includes a business finder to help you locate nearby shops. It can also send your coordinates to another nextel phone via text messaging. Available now, Telenav costs $10 for 10 trips or $20 for 80 trips...
...feet and establish a solid financial grounding for what has become very quickly a major academic reference within and beyond this University. Last year, we found ourselves with a $1,600 deficit that was fortunately overcome by the generous private contributions of our staff and Faculty advisors. As a start-up magazine with an enormous potential to fill an important void in campus life, we were thrilled by a $550 grant from the council. This year, we contently received a $250 one, despite being in dire need of grant funding. We will probably end up coming out even this year...
...kept them lucratively employed for nearly 10 months. After being featured in a men's magazine in February, the two received death threats at their Baghdad home and hurriedly left Iraq, telling TIME they would not return for several weeks. The president of Mulhern's small high-tech start-up, based in California, has asked that neither the company's name nor its specific task in Iraq be disclosed because of safety fears...