Those obstacles have not deterred several new firms that hope to strike it rich with uranium.
Tony Qu traveled from Shanghai to Silicon Valley a decade ago, hoping to strike it rich.
Some people increasingly see SXSWi as a place where fledgling start-ups go to strike it rich.
He, too, hoped to strike it rich, selling off a few items but losing 15, 000 in a fire.
Plenty of teenage entrepreneurs have built companies that later have success, but very few strike it rich so quickly.
Multinationals operate in the country but villagers often dig their own pits or hope to strike it rich in abandoned mines.
In the early 1980s he abandoned a career as a high school math teacher to strike it rich in Silicon Valley.
Some of these impresarios are legit and may even strike it rich.
These three mild suburban guys strike it rich only after Rock assumes the identity of a jailed racketeer and dubs his group CB4 (for Cell Block Four).
Just four months after the outfit dished out its 1GB FirePro V7750, the company is now looking to strike it rich once more with the 2GB FirePro V8750.
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On February 26, 2008, Dooley decided that he was going to strike it rich and solve all of his financial problems with a position on wheat futures that quickly went bad.
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Wal-Mart Stores (nyse: WMT - news - people ) has been accused of everything from not supplying workers with enough benefits and health insurance to opportunistic lawyers trying to strike it rich by bringing on endless lawsuits.
The world's dominant retailer has been facing a tidal wave of negativity--from community activists trying to keep its stores out of their neighborhoods, to local governments mandating that Wal-Mart supply workers with health insurance, to opportunistic lawyers trying to strike it rich by bringing on endless lawsuits.
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