Kelly, I wondered where you've been hiding lately! Thank you so much, and yes, it's time for you to get your butt up here for some fun.

Craig, I actually hadn't thought of that, but you're giving me ideas...I like it!

Jennifer

-- Food Philosophy. Sensuality. Sass.

Jennifer, shame on you for not taking standardized tests well. They are indeed the measure of all things, as the priesthood of our culture would have it.

Of course, in a few years you'll be hiring their newly-anointed MBA's, at which point the orientation process for each one should probably include, oh I don't know, kissing that rejection letter?

Not that I'm suggesting that you haven't already thought of that...

I've been totally out of the loop for the last little bit, so I apologize for this being so late and for not having called you in ages. But I am coming out of hiding to say:

OH MY GOD, YOU KASS!!!!!

What great exposure for you to be in Business Week! I'm also glad you are getting a chance to go off on Oxford to tons of people and to tell those people what you think of getting a business education in the real world.

I miss you, darling. Can I come to NYC in late October, maybe? I have to come and visit before you are a rich millionaire CEO and have forgotten about all the little people.

Kelly

Thanks so much to all of you for your support and enthusiasm -- it means more than you can know, particularly when the going gets rough.

Joe, you often inspire me. Thank you for that.

And Duncan, that is a fantastic story. I have a couple of those letters too, and they are saved in a file.

Jennifer

-- Food Philosophy. Sensuality. Sass.

Wonderful, Jen! *hugs*

I'm beat! I can't think of anything but good to say. Sigh.

--Brant

Jennifer - congratualations. Also, I just posted a comment about figs on your website...

Congratulations!

www.adambuker.com

Hey, I've said it before, when Jennifer left SOLO, though Jennifer's contribution is not so much specifically Objectivist (just like Rand said there can't be Objectivist music, can there be Objectivist cooking?), it achieves superbly what Objectivism is supposed to promote: a sensual sense of life that celebrates life here and now. Objectivism in action. But put that in with the entrepreneurship, I think that Rand would shed a tear of joy.

Though reading her recent contribution, she's shown how deep that mind of her goes. Beauty, talent, and now the political Jen. Sass and KASS!

Can't anyone think of something nasty to say? We need some dramatic tension here. There's more to the world than a kitchen full of fresh food, wine and a cook! Uh, I mean chef--I mean, more to the world after we eat!

--Brant

Jen, you continue to inspire.

Jennifer, congrats I know you've been working hard. Maybe next time it'll be Forbes.

Congratulations, Jennifer!

As an economist, I love you entrepreneurial types. You make everything better for the rest of us and help grow the economy. Thanks for being a badass.

Well done, Jennifer! Your story of framing the letter reminds me of a sci-fi author - I think it may have been Asimov?

Anyway, he kept all the rejection letters he received as a struggling author - in particular, one which told him he brought nothing new to the genre.

Of course, once he was famous, many publishers approached him for material. Every time he received such an approach, he'd flick through his collection of rejection letters, and if he found one from the publisher who was now courting him, he'd simply mail it back by way of reply

Thanks guys (that includes gals)!

Jennifer

-- Food Philosophy. Sensuality. Sass.

Onya!

Jennifer!

... were all complete nincompoops.

Bill Gates seemed to manage OK without one.

BTW, Regina Dildo, ignore Cresswell when he says, "As we say down here, onya." *We* don't. He & a few unreconstructed bleary blokes say it. *We* say—KASS!!!

Good for you, Jennifer. Can't wait for the rest of the news.

As we say down here, Onya!

Cheers, Peter Cresswell

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'NOT PC.'
**Setting Brushfires In People's Minds**

ORGANON ARCHITECTURE
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Congratulations Jennifer and especially for being recognised.
It will be upwards and onwards....I am thrilled for you.

Damned if I know, Claudia, particularly given my entrepreneurial background. I don't take standardized tests well, so that probably had a lot to do with it, but that kind of knowledge does not a CEO make. Thus Oxford did me a huge favor by sending me on my way, so I'm mighty grateful.

Thanks to everyone for your kind words publicly and privately. This has been an incredibly exciting week, and there's lots of other news coming, but I can't spill it yet -- and it's killin' me!!!

Jennifer

-- Food Philosophy. Sensuality. Sass.

Good for you! Why on earth did they reject you at Oxford?

"BW is the world's largest business publication, so I'm rather delighted"

As you should be.

L W

If you want to be an entrepreneur you'll get the education you need one way or the other. But I think you're nuts if you borrow money to get a graduate education. Jim Rogers says take the money you would have spent on your UNDERGRADUATE college education & jump right in. If you lose it you'll still be self educated. I wouldn't go that far, but to your own self be true. (W.S.)

--Brant

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Who did you have to pay to get that published?

Congratulations!