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...just a bunch of students banding together to get TV,” Castine wrote in an e-mailed statement. “I don’t like to think of it as a business.” Crimson Cable will cost $59.99 a month, in addition to startup costs like the Slingboxes, Castine said. While the UC is currently not a managing partner, Sundquist said a successful trial may encourage the UC to further its investigation of the service. Castine said the UC’s endorsement was important “just for getting the advertising...
...shiny as a new Lexus in Dixie right now. The Mercedes plant in Vance recently had to cut back to a four-day workweek; and with even Japanese powerhouse Toyota facing U.S. sales slumps, the company this week said it's delaying the startup of a new plant in Mississippi that will make its Prius hybrid car. Even workers like Ray now feel that a union "would definitely benefit" Dixie autoworkers; and either way, says Cashman, the New South's economies "still have many, many miles of training and education...
...move the metal off the lots. "They are building cars that they don't want to build. They have to build them because they have a fixed cost structure to amortize," says Nick Gidwani, a former auto-industry investment banker with Sankaty Advisors and now head of the startup auto-sales website CarZen. Particularly after the post-9/11 sales slump, Detroit got addicted to this strategy and used it to move plenty of SUVs...
...This event will help students think of their own startup ideas, flush them out, and think about the many problems that an entrepreneur faces, such as marketing, financing, and implementation...
...This competition shows people how many great ideas students are thinking of on campus,” Li said. “After all, anyone can do it, and any idea can provide the foundation for a great startup. You just need passion for making your idea succeed...