Talking to Finley, what was especially compelling to me (and something that I imagine attracted investors as well) is that Citrus Lane's founders seem to be the full package: They have real technical and business chops, but are also women themselves who understand the needs of their customer base.
A reviewer for the Manchester Guardian gave an almost anthropological description of Juba, unheard of for other performers: But the great feature of the entertainment, and that which we imagine attracted the large and respectable audience present, was undoubtedly "Master Juba," the immortalized of Boz.
His gamble on smokers paid off in a bigger way than the enterprising shopkeeper could have imagined, attracting notice from Putera Sampoerna (No. 9 on our list of Indonesia's richest), whose own company was then one of the nation's largest makers of clove and tobacco cigarettes.
It is hard to imagine banks attracting new foreign customers.
"I could imagine OceanStore attracting the next Hotmail-like startup as its first customer," he says.
More than once, I was asked with a boozy sneer by South African whites if I could ever imagine being attracted to a black woman.
At the time of the announcement, it was hard to imagine what attracted Mr. Levine, who is fired by challenging contemporary music, to Mr. Picker's neo-Romanticism and Mr. Tan's eclecticism.
"The only people who you could imagine being attracted to the Israeli-in-New York, complexity-of-the-Middle East dimensions are adults, and they don't go to the movies," said Marty Kaplan, a professor at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Southern California and a former film executive at Disney.
It's also hard to imagine the plant attracting the foreign investment it desperately needs.
Themed "Just Imagine," the parade attracted an estimated 900,000 visitors and featured 44 floats, 21 marching bands and 20 equestrian troupes marching down the 5½ mile route through the heart of Pasadena.
