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 also created his own website, Moneymaker. com, offering tips on how to make it rich.
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Instead of striking it rich, Wwebnet investors are left holding worthless shares of company stock.
Mezrich is also the author of a best-seller, published in 2003, about college students striking it rich.
Right now, there are planes full of travelers heading to Las Vegas with dreams of striking it rich.
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He, too, hoped to strike it rich, selling off a few items but losing 15, 000 in a fire.
" The provenance inspired this Forbes headline: "Striking It Rich On Wall Street.
Plenty of teenage entrepreneurs have built companies that later have success, but very few strike it rich so quickly.
The Facebook Keiretsu is the newest in a strong tradition of techies still working together once they hit it rich.
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His father founded the company in the 1960s, striking it rich with styrofoam containers for eggs and McDonald's Big Macs.
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.
The son of a semi-literate 49er who struck it rich, young Hearst went to Harvard on a fortune founded upon Anaconda copper and Homestake gold.
That includes the honeymoon she never had, in Hawaii, with her husband, who at first didn't believe they'd struck it rich but has since quit his job.
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).
Heinecke, who abandoned his American passport and became a Thai citizen in 1991, is a rare example of a former American who struck it rich in foreign lands.
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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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And even software developers in large companies often still fancy themselves as independent souls who, in their dreams, find fame and fortune founding a start-up and striking it rich.
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Those who struck it rich with their first startups are now going back in for another try, this time with more cash of their own and with lessons learned.
While Allen estimates that only 5% of miners who took part in the California Gold Rush felt they struck it rich, he sees the merchants as the real bread winners.
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His father founded the company in the 1960s, striking it rich with styrofoam containers for eggs and McDonald's (nyse: MCD - news - people ) Big Macs.
Some struck it rich, but most simply struck out.
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Rather than taking a chance on such a "sure loss, " investors prefer to gamble on high-flying tech stocks, even though they pay far too much for the chance of striking it rich.
The chairman of what domestic real-estate agents said was the biggest developer in the northern Chinese city of Baotou, he struck it rich in 1996 by helping rebuild the city following an earthquake.
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