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Posted: 7/23/2009
Luke Wilson (The Royal Tenenbaums, Old School), Academy Award nominee Adriana Barraza (Babel) and Radha Mitchell (Finding Neverland) star in a modern day fable about the unexpected wonders of the everyday from director Mark Pellington (U2 3D, The Mothman Prophesies). Henry Poole is Here tells the funny, poignant and uplifting story of a disillusioned man who attempts to hide from life in a rundown suburban tract home only to discover he cannot escape the forces of hope.
Henry Poole (Luke Wilson) just wants to disappear. Shattered by circumstances beyond his control, he offers full price on a cookie cutter house in a drab, middle-class, L.A. neighborhood through his perky realtor Meg (Cheryl Hines). But just as he settles in to his indulgent isolation with a case of vodka and all the junk food he can eat, his neighbor, a well-meaning busybody named Esperanza (Adriana Barraza), drops by with a plate of homemade tamales and a whole lot of questions.
Despite his desire for solitude, Henry watch
What do founders Amar Bose (Bose), Scott Cook (Intuit), Richard Branson (Virgin), John Paul DeJoria (Paul Mitchell), Michael Dell (Dell), Bill Gates (Microsoft), Steve Jobs (Apple), George Lucas (Lucasfilm), Herb Kelleher (Southwest Airlines), John Mackey (Whole Foods Market), Anita Roddick (The Body Shop) and Oprah Winfrey (Harpo) have in common? They are all entrepreneurs who took a bootstrap approach to building their companies. Bootstrapping is often contrasted with the Venture Capital model of entrepreneurship and much of the discussion centers around avoiding funding from investors. This commonly used definition falls far short of the true essence of bootstrapping. Phrases like: right action right time; constraint creates innovation; use everything; power of 2; demo/sell/build - all hint at what is really at work. Bootstrapping is simple yet mysterious, obvious yet subtle, tactical yet enduring. Neither cookie-cutter nor funding-driven, it is a third way of entrepreneurship invol watch
