Word: startup
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...good news is that not all brain-dead computers are created equal. Hewlett-Packard had the best rating in the survey; its computers worked on startup 92 percent of the time. By contrast, 17 percent of AST users had a bad out-of-box experience. Interestingly enough, AST users, while reporting the most initial problems, were also the least likely to call tech support -- a level of diminished expectations that may explain how PC makers can ship nonfunctional products and still make the big bucks...
That's a lot of dough for 12 letters and a period (no charge for the the www.) -- very likely the most ever paid for a domain name, in fact. The lucky seller is Jack Marshall, who in January 1994 registered the Internet address for his startup, AltaVista Technology. He might as well have stayed in bed after that -- it's unlikely anything he did with his company subsequently ever yielded the kind of return he was to get on his $100 registration...
Riding on his success in last year's $50K entrepreneurship competition at MIT, Favarola has taken a leave of absence from Harvard to manage his startup company. The company plans to develop and market the display technology for military, medical and entertainment applications...
Favarola also discussed the challenges associated with launching a successful startup company at last night's event...
...Methods of paper distribution will change. With increased personalization of newspapers, distribution will become more costly. Newsprint papers will probably still exist and individual copies will still be sold at central locations. However, personalized newspapers sent electronically to households and printed within the home will develop. Startup services like InfoBeat and Point-Cast will work with and compete with major-metro dailies to provide such services...