Recognized as a top 100 entrepreneur under the age of 30 by The Obama Administration, Neil Patel is by no means your typical Bay-Area technology business builder.
In January, I took 26 Babson College MBA candidates to Hong Kong and our first meeting was with Lee in the headquarters of his company, BridgeWay Business Builder and Broker, it buys and sells restaurants, nail salons, and other retail stores in Hong Kong.
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In the 1980s Lowe's was the industry leader, but it was overdependent on the cyclical builder business.
Building that team is job one for the entrepreneur who shifts, as she did, from a lifestyle business owner to an empire builder.
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PulteGroup managed to cut its quarterly loss thanks to smaller charges, but that wasn't good enough for Wall Street, as investors are hungry to see real business growth from the home builder.
Then their builder went out of business and the stock collapse knocked 40% off their savings.
Would Gulfstream serve investors better if it were a pure-play builder of high-end business jets rather than being wrapped in a defense contractor?
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He had been a builder up in Minnesota until his contracting business went bust two years before.
The new business: a do-it-yourself app builder tailored for nonprofits with which they can do everything from raise money to recruit volunteers.
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"If you order the pink carpet, we're probably going to ask you to put the full deposit on that one, " says Bob Martin, the Denver-based builder's vice president of finance and business development who is currently picking out upgrades for his new home.
The company has been building a small business content portal for many years, in addition to a strong website builder and tools to manage a website and marketing.
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To get their story on this empire builder, Toni Mack and Phyllis Berman spent months chasing down business associates, cable television analysts and investment bankers who know Allen or understand some piece of his grand strategy.
"The last thing the big guys want is to rationalize the system and commoditize themselves out of business, " says Paul McBride, chief financial officer of InterNap, a builder of systems that bypass peering points.
Gray Construction, a Kentucky-based builder of factories and other manufacturing facilities, has continued to win business from big European customers looking to expand in the U.S. But Chief Executive Stephen Gray said he has detected more anxiety among European customers in recent weeks, and he is factoring that into his hiring decisions.
Until this year, boat builder John McShea had to travel 45 minutes from Totnes to get to his business in East Portlemouth.
Throughout his life, John Walton pursued various business interests, at one time working as a crop duster and later as a boat builder.
Builder Natwarlal Desai was cut down by bullets in Nariman Point, Bombay's top business district, and Bharat Kumar, owner of a sari shop, was slain outside his store.
On the day I testified before the Senate Small Business Committee seeking to repeal the new luxury tax, we were able to show that a boat builder in Texas canceled his order for a new plane because of the negative impact that the tax had on his sales.
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