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...here at Harvard, students are playing their own version of "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire." It's the Internet Startup Game, and chances are you or someone you know has already been a contestant...
QUESTION 1: Congratulations! You've started an Internet startup. Which of the following markets will you tap into first? A) Urban yuppies in their mid-20s; B) Computer-savvy professionals in their mid-30s; C) Corporate board members in their mid-40s; D) Harvard kids...
QUESTION 3: The fate of any Internet startup is largely determined by its Web site. In what aspect of Web site development should you allocate most of the company's resources? A) Developing a user-friendly design; B) Creating innovative back-end code; C) Integrating corporate data with outside sources; D) Figuring out how to morally justify your decision to redirect traffic from porn sites...
...Just for example, over the weekend Motorola and French software mogul Philippe Kahn announced their intention to put $6.5 million into OpenGrid, Inc., a little-known startup bent on creating instant-messaging applications for cell phones. If OpenGrid can make it happen, the move would take cell phones into an area of communications that until now only PCs have been able to handle; although some pagers can handle e-mail, they aren't capable of true instant messaging. MORE...
...users what all users want: more power. The basic iMac - which now qualifies as the low-end iMac - comes with a 350MHz G3 chip, 64 MB of RAM (expandable all the way up to 512MB), and a six-gigabyte hard drive. What else? A new, quieter cooling system, rapid startup, and a new price: $999. MORE...