The promise has changed 11 times to reflect changes in society since guiding was first founded in 1909.
By contrast, the British Venture Capital association (BVCA), which represents both venture capital firms and buyout firms, was first founded over 25 years ago and the European Venture Capital Association (EVCA) has been operating since 1983.
Hers was the first company founded by a woman to reach the Fortune 500.
First, DeLay founded TRMPAC, staffing it with close allies and charging it with the massive task of bringing about the first Republican majority in more than a century in the Texas House.
First, he founded comic book company Graphation to raise capital for The Tiziano Project.
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First Solar, founded in 1999, has been able to build a large fleet of factories that rivals the size of those owned by Chinese companies.
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In the prime of his career in 2001, Ludden founded First Descents, a nonprofit that provides free outdoor adventures for adults ages 18 to 39 battling the disease.
In 2009, Bailyn founded First Page Sage, a search engine optimization and social media marketing firm with offices in San Francisco and New York, teaming up with his brother Bradley, now 33.
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IR The first Spanish university was founded not at Salamanca in 1218 but at Palencia in 1208.
It all started with William Gross, who in 1996 founded the first Internet incubator--Idealab, in Pasadena, Calif.
Its moment of glory came in 1804, when its former slaves founded the first independent black republic.
After a short career in financial journalism, he founded the first Canadian institutional brokerage company, Loewen Ondaatje McCutcheon.
The first two companies he founded were sold to Cisco Systems and Sun Microsystems, respectively, for hundreds of millions.
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IR You imply that the first European university was founded in Bologna in 1100.
He founded his first company, Curagen, in his basement in 1991 soon after getting a doctorate in biochemistry from Yale.
In 1986, he was just a 26-year-old research scientist at MIT when he co-founded his first company, Boston Technology .
And, by the way, his choice of partners, first Hellman Friedman, founded by my late and most marvelous cousin F.
First, Ford was founded by a notorious anti-Semite, which is probably why my father bought Oldsmobiles all those years ago.
At age 15 he founded his first company, which wrote Atari videogames.
It all started with William Gross, who in 1996 founded the first Internet incubator--Idealab, in Pasadena, California--to develop his own ideas into companies.
Sylvain founded his first company at a very young age, a platform for free and legal music downloads under Creative Commons licenses called Jamendo.
When Jobs was ousted from the company he co-founded the first time, in 1984, Microsoft closed its software gap with Apple in less than a decade.
The company however is not founded by first time entrepreneurs.
John Carroll, later the first American bishop, founded the school in 1789, realizing efforts dating from 1634 to establish a Roman Catholic college in the province of Maryland.
What's more, we are the first nation to be founded for the sake of an idea, the idea that each of us deserves the chance to shape our own destiny.
According to Andrew Bell, director of American Sommelier, a professional educational organization, his group is "900 times" busier today than it was in 1998 when he founded his first chapter in New York.
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He has been a proud member of Human Rights First since it was founded as the Lawyers Committee for Human Rights 27 years ago, and has served as its president for the last 12.
He has been a proud member of Human Rights First since it was founded -- as the Lawyers Committee for Human Rights -- 27 years ago, and has served as its president for the last 12.
We co-founded my first software business.
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The first of those innovations came in the 1970s, when he founded Interface to become the first manufacturer of modular carpet tiles.
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