Hints and tips:
...john.thornhill@ft.com...
...I found one such entrepreneur, John Paleomylites, who was running BeatThatQuote, a UK price comparison site that my firm Ariadne Capital advised....
...Most of the great entrepreneurs of the personal computing revolution – Bill Gates, Steve Jobs and Scott McNealy included – were born in 1954 or 1955....
...He had previously been tipped as a possible replacement for Scott McNealy, the former chief of Sun Microsystems - a role that was ultimately awarded to Mr McNealy’s second-in-command, Jonathan Schwartz....
...Mr McNealy’s attempt to buck the tech world’s post-bubble consensus was backed by a group of long-time board members who include some of Silicon Valley’s most notable names, among them John Doerr, the venture...
...Scott McNealy, chief executive, said that he would step down in favour of Jonathan Schwartz, company president....
...Mr Schwartz, who works under Scott McNealy, Sun's long-time chief executive, says that a blog enables him to communicate quickly and directly with many audiences. It is also cheap....
...John Hight, executive producer for Atari, says, "Our criterion [for beta testing] involves games with a multiplayer element where balance and tuning is important....
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