Word: entrepreneurs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...dot.com's been smashed! But don't cry for me--O.K., you probably aren't--I'll do fine. And so will the business. That's how this entrepreneur consoles himself when he looks at the stock performance of TheStreet.com a company that came public at $19 just a few months ago, roared to $70 on the first day of trading and now finds itself below the offering at about...
...this time Bronson gets serious too: "I wanted to know what burns in the heart," he says. So he finds a struggling French entrepreneur with no venture funding, no friends and a work visa about to expire, who confesses, "There's a knife at my throat. Sometimes I get really, really scared." A motherly saleswoman talks about going for "the kill" when she closes a deal. A CEO starts to unravel in the final sweaty minutes of an IPO that just might fizzle. The tension is palpable, the fear real, as Bronson chronicles "the living hell of radical uncertainty that...
LESLIE A. LUMMIS Independent, Guam Resume: Entrepreneur, manufacturer, homebuilder, author Relevant experience: Lieutenant, U.S. Naval Reserve Platform: Abolish taxes: "It would be like Christmas every...
...Entrepreneur O'Donnell is a former assistant dean at the business School and currently serves as chair of Boston Concessions Group. But he is better known in Boston as founder of the Joey Fund, a non-profit organization named for his late son and dedicated to helping those with cystic fibrosis...
...meister --Estee Lauder, cosmetics tycoon --William Levitt, creator of suburbia --Lucky Luciano, criminal mastermind --Louis B. Mayer, Hollywood mogul --Charles Merrill, advocate of the small investor --Akio Morita, co-founder of Sony --Walter Reuther, labor leader --Pete Rozelle, football-league commissioner --David Sarnoff, father of broadcasting --Juan Trippe, aviation entrepreneur --Sam Walton, Wal-Mart dynamo --Thomas Watson Jr., IBM president...