He bolted to start his own business in June 2002, financed by Osher and Gallo.

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So in 2010 he decided to start his own business, Global Digital Prima Venture, to invest in Internet companies.

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Mr. Lee left IV to start his own business.

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Against the advice of friends and family, he decided to start his own flooring business in the summer of 2007.

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Afterward, people wanted to license his software and this led to the start of his own business and an entrepreneurial journey that would bring him around the world and ultimately to MIT where he met is Locu co-founders.

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Duhamel had ambitions at one time to become a trader or maybe start his own business.

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After working for an American newspaper, The Overseas Weekly, for five years in Germany, he came to Asia in 1967 to start up its Hong Kong office, and subsequently started his own business.

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