Word: startup
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...always infinitely curious and questioning, yet with a very down to earth sense of humor,” says David Sidman ’78, Allen’s three-time roommate, now the CEO of his own Internet startup. “I remember once we were watching ‘Star Trek’ after dinner in the Union [the old student dining hall], and in this episode the Enterprise encounters a giant spinning cube in space. Rick turned to me and mused, ‘Does God play dice with the universe...
Running a startup church on the donations of college students is no easy business, but Schlecht manages...
...many stations that can exist on the spectrum allotted to commercial radio and television in any given area. Unlike a perfectly open market, where dissatisfied consumers can turn to a new provider in search of the product they want, there is simply no room on the radio dial for startup or breakaway radio stations to form should an existing monopoly alienate the consumer. As such, it is entirely reasonable for the government to regulate this commodity and restrict consolidation in this industry...
David Darst is a sensitive kind of guy. Sure, he’s got that little pharmaceutical company startup under his belt, as the two cell phones and two laptops in his Leverett single attest. The scores of cardboard boxes that crowd his common room, marked with magical names like “Goldman Sachs” and “Morgan Stanley,” might also fool you into thinking that Darst is just another ruthless capitalist. But he’s on his way to curing tuberculosis in the Third World. And he likes ballet...
Computers can also be hacked into by viruses. The best protection against these, Davis said, is to use antivirus programs such as those distributed to all students in the school’s startup software package...