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...today is close to $11,000. All the major automakers are going after this fast-growing market. Toyota will ship 40,000 of its Van Wagons to the U.S. this year, and Volkswagen expects to sell 25,000 Vanagons in America during 1984. General Motors and Ford will not launch vans until early in 1985. Both firms chose to put out a line of small trucks before the minivans. To catch up, Ford has even taken the unusual step of displaying a mock-up of its slope-fronted Aerostar minivan at auto shows a full year before the official introduction...
...that we cling to the notion that there is an essential duality on complex political, economic and social issues. We dismiss out of hand the idea of a strong, viable third party. Yet a new group capable of attracting progressive elements from both the Democrats and the Republicans could launch a political reformation that would truly address our problems...
...venture capitalists, underwriters and assorted ground-floor investors. They are the dreammakers whose cash and advice can mean the difference between survival and collapse for a fledgling company. They often risk big money, but with luck and savvy they can earn huge rewards. Four successful financiers who have helped launch small companies...
...stopped for a drink at the Kona Kai Club in San Diego with George Quist, a friend who was a venture-capital specialist for Bank of America. After commiserating a while over the excessive caution of big companies and consuming two bottles of wine, Hambrecht and Quist decided to launch their own venture-capital fund...
...make a computer on a chip. Last February IBM paid $250 million for a 12% interest in the firm, and has since increased its holding to 17.5%. In 1978 Rock invested $57,400 in a fledgling personal-computer company with a whimsical name: Apple. Six years ago, he helped launch Diasonics, a manufacturer of medical instruments; when it went public last year, it was valued at more than $1 billion...