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...really too difficult,” O’Neill says. “This spring I haven’t really had much to do for soccer and during the fall I wasn’t required to do much for baseball. I just try to get stuff in when I find time...
...look back on it as one of the most exciting periods of my life, I guess, the first six months of Betfair, which were fairly high-octane stuff. We would have some disagreements, we'd shout and scream and that sort of thing - I certainly did. But it was incredibly exciting, watching the numbers go up, and watching the business actually happen...
...Black: We did a lot of guerilla marketing that cost us next to nothing, just to try and catch the attention of anybody. We did lots of jokey sort of stuff: Ed and I were posing for pictures with bookmakers in coffins which is arguably a little distasteful but, you know, you had to do that sort of thing if you wanted to catch the attention of the papers. And all of this because we didn't have any money to spend. So a typical company, launching in the dotcom world at that time, would have had a huge marketing...
...Black: The stuff that's given me the most stress is probably not the kind of stuff you might expect. The concerns have always been "can this company rise to the occasion here?," because here we were, in my eyes, a bunch of earnest amateurs, who were getting stuck in but we were just this tiny little company, a bunch of guys without any dotcom heritage who didn't really know what they were doing but were feeling their way around, and we knew we had to turn ourselves into something much bigger, much more solid, much more dependable, reliable...
...stuff of fantasy: a charming prince arrives at his girlfriend's rural English estate, swooping in on his trusty steed. But when Prince William flew a Royal Air Force Chinook helicopter to Kate Middleton's garden earlier this month, he should have known that his romantic gesture wouldn't lead to a fairytale ending. Rather than emerging as the knight in shining armor, William has drawn criticism for his personal use of military craft and reopened a controversy in Britain about his and his brother's privileged role in the armed forces during a time...