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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...else?--passion). He has five cars, a penthouse apartment in San Francisco and a stream of (unanswered) e-mail proposals owing to his well-documented success. Yet Bhatia says he dates "less often than the average American male," or about once a month. "If you're involved in a start-up," Bhatia says, "it's hard to get to know anyone or make a commitment to someone else...
What will a pack of recent college grads endure to work at a start-up? A visit to the "offices" of MongoMusic.com in San Mateo reveals the answer: anything...
Despite appearances, MongoMusic.com is doing pretty well. The start-up, which will help consumers search for and buy music on the Internet, has raised enough money to move into spacious new digs in Menlo Park next month. Right now, the company is "incubating," renting two rooms in a dreary high-rise for $3,800 a month from HQ Global, a company that leases temporary office space. There are 10 other start-ups in the building. "It's not very cost-efficient office space," says MongoMusic's 28-year-old CEO, Jeremy Hinman, "unless you pack people...
That number is expected to swell as aging baby boomers finish sending their kids to college and start looking to buy vacation or retirement homes. Explains Orrin Pilkey, professor of earth and ocean sciences at Duke University: "Here's a chance to live out life in the place where you had the best time of your life. With people who come to the beach and look for property, it's almost as if they're in heat...
...plied their connections and met some of this year's Stanford Business School graduates in mid-launch process. They set up camp in San Francisco and made regular reconnaissance trips into the Valley, meeting major players as well as ancillary characters. Ratnesar and Stein got rare access to start-ups so new they are still hiding behind fake names. And our reporters did not neglect the Valley's peculiar social scene."What was most striking was how consuming the start-up life is for many of these people," Ratnesar says. "They can't--won't--talk about anything else...