However, there are considerable advantages to teaming up with a first-tier venture capitalist or corporate partner.
Prof Carroll says his new bulb is cheap to make and he has a "corporate partner" interested in manufacturing the device.
"The relationship between the political class and the entrepreneurial class remains uneasy", says Sebastian Lawson, Moscow-based corporate partner of law firm Freshfields.
Since going public was not an option, Small was fortunate to be able to find a corporate partner who would invest in the company and let it operate without being engulfed.
Johnson, partner and corporate practice group leader at Burleson LLP, sat down with us and talked about oil and gas due diligence.
Mike Jenkins, a partner with corporate strategy consultant Marakon Associates, thinks the company is showing signs of being a disciplined buyer that knows how to pick assets it can add value to.
Over the telephone, his bargaining partner, a corporate agent, told him he was putting too much emphasis on the clause we wanted.
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Moreover, many senior women reported making personal sacrifices in order to succeed in corporate structures that assumed a partner would be home to care for the family.
While it is curious that Sports Illustrated is reaching outside of its corporate organization for a television partner, the magazine has had a bumpy history with some tie-ups under the Time Warner umbrella.
The only sign that there had ever been a Dresdner would be the smaller partner's green corporate colour.
For now, though, he is well-positioned to become a highly sought-after TV pundit, corporate board member, Silicon Valley partner, you name it.
If a member, partner or shareholder has misused corporate assets or grossly violated fiduciary duties owed to the corporation, a court may appoint a receiver.
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Earlier at the conference, Silicon Graphics gave the open-source community another nod of corporate approval by tapping C2Net as a partner in its Internet service strategy.
Joint administrator Kerry Bailey, a partner in PKF's corporate recovery team, said J U Bowen had ceased to trade and made all its 30 staff redundant before administrators were appointed.
Balgley says he spent nine months in talks to partner up on AOL's corporate product, but "they made it very clear that we would have to" neutralize Jabber's ability to talk to competitive systems.
It evolves the traditional model of financial and material goods donations, to one in which corporations leverage a range of corporate assets including employee skills, business acumen and partner networks, to drive social change.
"Even if your message is a negative one, you should get out there and say it, " says Richard Wolff, a managing partner at Kreab Gavin Anderson who has consulted on corporate transitions.
Armstrong, a partner at the law firm Duane Morris who specializes in corporate law with a concentration in technology and compliance.
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Views she expressed as a Debevoise partner don't necessarily reflect her own opinions, since corporate lawyers are paid to argue the viewpoints of the firms they represent.
Waves of Chinese lawyers who received law degrees in the U.S. come back with understanding of WTO law and different legal systems, said Xiao Jinquan, a partner at Dacheng Law Offices and director of the commerce and corporate committee on the All China Lawyers Association.
"Google has the best corporate reputation in the world because it understands the power of the corporate story, " says Kasper Ulf Nielsen, Reputation Institute's executive partner.
Paul McKenzie is Managing Partner of the office, whose practice focuses on a broad range of corporate transactions and regulatory compliance matters.
Glenn Nash, a partner at law firm Sidley Austin, points to a broader range of corporate strategic acquirers beyond the naturals Google and Facebook.
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In 1988 he joined Bowman Gilfillan, one of South Africa's largest corporate law firms, and in 1993 he became the firm's first black partner.
Because factories are built to manufacture goods, not conserve energy, "most of corporate America uses 20% more energy than it needs to, " says Mobius partner Richard Palmer.
"Amazon has the distinct combination of having a terrific video service with a huge fan base among their customers for Stephen King's book, making them the perfect partner for this summer programming event, " said Scott Koondel, Chief Corporate Content Licensing Officer, CBS Corporation.
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Six years ago, Rachel (Ginnifer Goodwin), a guarded thirty-year-old corporate lawyer, fell for Dex (Colin Egglesfield), her law-school study partner, but stood idly by as he took up with her lifelong best friend, the loud, aggressive, uninhibited Darcy (Kate Hudson).
Now NBC is a partner in the Olympics, both as the exclusive American broadcaster of the games and through other corporate ties.
Examples: Carroll Petrie, Susan Gutfreund (the former Pan Am flight attendant who married Salomon Brothers managing partner John Gutfreund) and Gayfryd Steinberg, who to this day is still ministering to her corporate raider husband, Saul, who suffered a debilitating stroke in 1995.
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