IQ News: Zapata's Master Plan Misfires

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After aiming at the Web, Zapata won’t pull the trigger.
Fifty eight-year-old Michael Selzer plans some day to move his five-person online book-selling operation from his dining room to a more spacious barn behind his house in Great Barrington, Mass. Lavonne Luquis, a former newspaper editor, would prefer to write more articles for her San Francisco-based news site, LatinoLink, than spend the majority of her time on the phone selling ads. Across the bay in Union City, Scott Cole, 29, the founder of Web music store Mass Music, just wants a paycheck after going four months without one.
The ties that bind these disparate souls pushes beyond a boot-strapping, entrepreneurial spirit.




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