But the medicine had a potential for toxicity, and he spent years refining it before founding a company called Centaur.
"Of course when you are founding a company you say yes to almost anything, " says Michael Klug, a founder and now chief technology officer.
FedEx founder Fred Smith (a middling student at Yale by some accounts) is known to be a huge fan of the classical economic scholars, but how awful for all of us if he'd wasted his talent on teaching classical theory over founding a company that employs thousands and makes all of our lives much easier.
FedEx ( FDX - news - people ) founder Fred Smith (a middling student at Yale by some accounts) is known to be a huge fan of the classical economic scholars, but how awful for all of us if he'd wasted his talent on teaching classical theory over founding a company that employs thousands and makes all of our lives much easier.
Romney has had lots of formative experiences in the intervening 47 years college and graduate school, a Mormon mission, marriage, raising five children, founding a successful company, running the Olympics and a state.
In fact, the work on OpenID provided the basis for the founding of a breakout company, called Janrain.
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There is one critically important thing for a founding company to understand about both of the online customer community types: The company cannot control community behavior.
In contrast, the operational experiences required to take a company from its founding through a successful exit are additive to early-stage startups.
Mark Tucker, a founding member of the company, said without the funds the service would "simply cease".
Last November Kimco celebrated its 20th anniversary as a public company and since its founding in 1958, the retail REIT has evolved into a diversely risk-aligned investment platform.
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The company is a founding member of the Secure Digital Music Initiative (SDMI), the recording industry's effort to develop an open, secure access system for digital music.
In 1998 he was appointed head of design at Habitat, then later creative director, staying on as a consultant even after founding his eponymous company in 2002 (he left Habitat in 2008).
Phillips was a political veteran who had worked with Ralph Reed, the evangelical leader and Republican activist, co-founding Century Strategies, a campaign-consulting company that became notorious for its ties to the disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff.
When Mr Ackerman took the top job in 1996, replacing James Houghton of the firm's founding family, the company was still a slow-growing conglomerate best known for its retail brands, such as Pyrex and Corning Ware.
"From founding this company to guiding its growth into a trusted global brand that is indispensable to millions of people, I have always sought to do what is best for our franchise, " said Jerry Yang.
The company, which is a founding member of the WiMax Forum, a standards-based organization that includes companies such as Motorola, Sprint and Alvarion, is working closely with Intel and is also introducing a new line of WiMax products.
This Stanford project led to the founding in early 2012 of Coursera, a social entrepreneurship company that hosts around 200 free courses from 33 of the world's best universities, including Princeton, Stanford, Penn, Michigan, Caltech, Duke, Illinois, Washington and others.
Since founding the company in 2007, we all have faced a world none would have imagined.
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"It was all Mark, " said Steve Anderson, a founding partner of Baseline Ventures, one of the company's early investors.
It is rare in the U.S. mall industry for a founding family to have no governing role in its company.
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The appointment is seen as the founding family's bid to keep a grip on the company, in which it has a 14% stake.
Scott McNealy (founding CEO of Sun Microsystems) is said to be starting a new company in Colorado.
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But the San Francisco company hasn't turned a yearly profit since its founding in 2006.
The company's founding CEO, Hoffman, was more of a venture capitalist by temperament.
Steven Udvar-Hazy made a multi-billion-dollar fortune founding and running one airplane leasing company.
The Motorola car radio was released by the Galvin Manufacturing Corporation in 1930, two years after the company's founding in Chicago, kicking things off with a battery eliminator, aimed at letting battery-powered home radios run off of household electricity.
To take a biotech from founding it as an offshoot of Yale to an international pharma company is pretty unique.
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It was another sorrow for the family in a year that marks the 60th anniversary of their company's founding, following the disappearance in January of the Missonis' eldest child, company CEO Vittorio Missoni.
Brill, whose past ventures include the founding of Court TV, now a Time Warner unit, and Brills Content, has predicted the company will be profitable by 2008, and he projects 3.5 million users by 2011.
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