Streamlined Sales Tax Project, a joint state and business effort started in 1999.
Chan is reported to have purchased her first few real estate properties with profits from a furniture repair business she started in Hong Kong.
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Gregg Woolf, CEO of Vantage Reporting in Newton, Mass. said the biggest change he has seen in the business since he started in the late 1990s has been in technology alternative investment firms back then had very little of it.
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There have been no monumental changes in the way Wall Street conducts business since I started in the industry a quarter century ago.
So we got started in business, and we started out as an ad agency.
She found work as a technical writer at Acer but had moved on to do Chinese-language sports reporting when Jenny and her husband, Steve Ming-Jang Chang, asked her to open a Taiwan office for a business they had started in Los Angeles.
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And but, you know, in the broader philosophical approach, basically - and I didn't believe this when I started in the news business in the early 80s, but I believe that the news media plays a crucial role in our US national security and international affairs.
Other women have been more confrontational in the face of obstacles: One entrepreneur, who had started a business in 1990, lost her temper when confronted with a "No Women Allowed" sign in a government department, and ripped the sign off the door.
Top business schools started accepting GRE scores in 2006, led by Stanford University's Graduate School of Business.
Together, they started the business in 2002 in the former North Shore plantation town of Haleiwa.
When Paltinger started her business in 2000, she sold about 20 dirndls a year.
Mr. Lazar started his business in 1989 when he was a bartender trying to clear out late-night stragglers.
They were reminded of why they started the business in the first place.
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American Express started Small Business Saturday in 2010 as a way to help generate more awareness of local, small businesses.
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Whereas Apple started its business in Steve Jobs' garage, Pebble is located on the ground floor of Pebble founder Eric Migicovsky's apartment.
Take off your blinders when it comes to growth and begin asking yourself why you started your business in the first place.
But life at Gazprom, and the world of Russian business, started to change in June 2000, with the ascension of Vladimir Putin.
They are, well, light years away from the simple incandescent bulbs the Philips brothers made when they started the business back in 1891.
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Edmund McIlhenny started his business in the late 1800s, says Paul McIlhenny, the sixth in an unbroken line of McIlhenny men to run the company.
For years now, Alfredo Chedraui Obeso of Mexico has been keeping a low profile, quietly overseeing the family business his grandparents started back in 1920.
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My wife, who developed an English tutoring business here, started singing in choirs (an important leisure activity in Israel) shortly after we moved and has become a soloist.
"When Lilly started the business back in the '60s, she targeted a young customer because she was young, " the company's president, Jim Bradbeer, told the AP in 2003.
Hailed as one of China's most successful rags-to-riches entrepreneurs, Huang got started in business by selling home electronics in the nation's capital sourced from factories in Guangdong province.
His great, great grandfather Thomas started the business in the 1920s and it was carried on by his grandfather Walter and father Thomas who retired 20 years ago.
His grandfather, also named Lorenzo, started the business in 1906.
When he started in business the younger Mr Li's arrogance made him plenty of enemies, but he has since grown up, discovering his inner geek along with a softer style.
Mr. Smith and his eight partners started their business in 2000 for the sole purpose of having it become a dot-shop registry holder that could sell dot-shop Web addresses, such as jeans.shop and coats.shop.
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