Peter Thiel has a lot of experience with technology start-up businesses.

VOA: special.2011.05.30

And Pets2Vets provides a start-up kit of pet equipment.

VOA: special.2009.12.11

Its mission is to examine Britain's role in the run-up to the start of the Iraq war in 2003 through the conflict and its aftermath.

VOA: standard.2009.11.25

But in 2008 life changed for about 55 families in Penjaringan when the international aid organization Mercy Corps installed a separate tank and ran water lines to households able to pay the $20 start-up fee.

VOA: standard.2010.08.04

On a 9.6-hectare tract of land . on the Texas coast south of Houston, a start-up company from Florida called Algenol, in partnership with the Dow Chemical company, plans to build more than 3,000 bioreactors,starting next year.

VOA: standard.2009.09.02

He's also decided to give up leadership in Light up the World Foundation to start a company in India that will develop a more energy-efficient and cheaper lighting system that he hopes will bring even more light to the world's poor.

VOA: standard.2009.12.13