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Will it be the next Facebook? The next Blogger, Digg or Twitter? Who knows? It almost goes without saying that many more start-ups fail than succeed. Reid Hoffman, founder and CEO of the job-networking site LinkedIn and an angel investor in many start-ups (including Facebook), says, "The biggest problem facing any website is distribution." In a world where it's so easy to start a company, how will anyone find yours...
...suspicious of outsiders, the country bristled under the failed U.N. peacekeeping mission in the early 1990s and the Ethiopia occupation over the past few years. "The sea and the land are the same," says Abdinaser Biyokulule, a pirate recruiter in the pirate haven of Bossaso. "Foreign troops did not succeed on land, so they will not succeed in the sea either...
...sensitive” individual whose extensive experience with budgets was especially appealing. “He has articulated that he’s going to listen for quite a while and learn, which I think is a critical piece of any outsider’s ability to succeed in Cambridge,” she said. But other community members said they were displeased with the school committee’s choice. “I watched the school committee take Cambridge back 30 years,” said Kathy A. Reddick, president of the Cambridge NAACP, who added that...
...easiest way to do that would be to provide opportunities and jobs. "It's not just about winning hearts and minds," says Ettore Francesco Sequi, the European Union's special representative to Afghanistan. "We also have to fill stomachs. That's the way we - and the Afghan government - will succeed...
...enough to have good policies in Beijing; the work has to happen in the provinces and the communities where 60% of the nation actually lives. "Unless you understand how you can translate the policies into the realities of where the people are living, you will not succeed," he says. "There's an opportunity here to make sure 50 million people don't become infected...