Trump University was founded as an online school and is now named Trump Entrepreneur Initiative.
The capital, Freetown, was founded as a home for repatriated former slaves in 1787.
Founded as a test-prep business, in 2000 Kaplan entered the burgeoning sector of for-profit higher education.
Takefuji was founded as a small money lender by the elder Takei in 1966.
South Australia is the only Australian state not founded as a British penal colony.
Founded as Trade-Plus by William Porter, a physicist, it supplied terminals to customers at Fidelity and Schwab.
Athena Neurosciences was founded as a stand-alone company in 1987 with the express purpose of curing Alzheimer's.
Each of the three sites contains shrines, some of which were founded as early as the 9th century.
The Cardinals are the oldest pro football franchise, founded as the Morgan Athletic Club in Chicago in 1898.
On the other hand, the black press was founded as a crusading press.
Udemy, StartApp, Kaltura and Kaggle were all founded as small startups and in several short years grew into global technology leaders.
Founded as a cure for dyspepsia by Caleb Bradham , a North Carolina pharmacist, PepsiCo was a one-brand pony for decades.
Founded as a family company in 1975 and floated on the stockmarket in 1987, Merloni's success owes much to Vittorio Merloni.
FactSet Research Systems Inc. was founded as a Delaware corporation in 1978.
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For Pakistan, founded as a homeland for all Indian Muslims, the Sunni-Shia divide is an awkward subject that many would rather ignore.
In 2002, Achievers was founded as I Love Rewards, an e-commerce site for distributing employee rewards, such as T-shirts and coffee mugs.
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Founded as a ship supply company in Marseille in 1895, Sodexho shifted to food service in 1966 with a single corporate dining room.
In between, Baran, often teamed with his business partner, Steve Millard, and later his son Dave, founded as many as a dozen companies.
Founded as Trade-Plus by physicist William Porter, it supplied crude terminals, with orange type on a black screen, to customers at Fidelity and Schwab.
Indevus was founded as Interneuron , a company based on intellectual property that came out of the laboratory of MIT professor Richard Wurtman .
But many Mayans are angry that Bush is visiting Iximche, founded as the capital of the Kaqchiqueles kingdom before the Spanish conquest in 1524.
Midland, Texas the city founded as the midway point between Fort Worth and El Paso in 1881 has the second lowest unemployment rate in the country.
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Proceeds from the auction will go to The RFK Center for Justice and Human Rights, an international nonprofit founded as a memorial to Robert F.
The Jif-Crisco acquisition is the biggest event in the history of the company, founded as an apple-butter maker by Tim and Richard's great-grandfather, Jerome Monroe Smucker, in 1897.
This Ohio company, founded as a wooden barrel maker, makes steel drums, corrugated boxes, water bottles, rain barrels and basically every type of packaging you could think of.
The company has had interests in the MLP-pipeline sector since 2004 when the firm was founded as Alerian Group by Gabriel Hammond, a former Goldman Sachs MLP analyst .
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For example, the Obama campaign has attacked certain Republican nominee Mitt Romney's successful business career, portraying the venture capitalist company he founded as a pioneer in outsourcing American jobs.
Hostess, founded as a bread maker in 1930, has to contend with a particularly cumbersome work force, a legacy of how it was built through acquisitions since the 1960s.
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Originally founded as the construction and engineering branch of the IRGC at the end of the Iran-Iraq War, Ghorb initially focused on reconstruction, but it soon ventured into other fields.
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He wanted independence for Scotland, he was president of the Voluntary Euthanasia Society and, at 80, he brought out a book dismissing the beliefs on which Christianity was founded as "preposterous".
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