The first company he backed was Odeo, a start-up founded by Evan William that failed.
Solyndra, on the other hand, was the first company funded by this Administration under this program.
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"We were probably the first company in Europe to build a company around HTML5, " he said.
Phipps appears to be the first company to be publicly linked to the ploy.
Matrix is certainly not the first company to try to establish a new portable write-once format.
Nokia lived up to the expectation of being the first company to heavily push wireless charging.
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Ariad is not the first company to try to patent a broad swath of biology.
Bentley is hardly the first company to want to distance itself from certain admirers.
It is believed to be the first company to agree to disclose clawback dollar amounts.
Impatient with the pace of diabetes research, he left UCLA to start his first company.
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Nethercomm isn't the first company to think about using utility pipes to zap data into homes.
Apple will be the first company to bundle an optical mouse with all its desktop systems.
His first company was a Braille publishing enterprise which served an international client base.
Hers was the first company founded by a woman to reach the Fortune 500.
John Cioffi runs the first company I know of that is named after his wife.
Targus isn't the first company to try moving handwriting into the land of digital.
After graduation he launched his first company, a financial data aggregator targeting U.S.-based hedge funds.
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But he dropped out to launch his first company, Bamboo Systems, which sold customer-management software to brokerages.
She started her first company at 13, graduated high school at 15 and completed college at 19!
Capital One is believed to be the first company to specifically agree to do so, he said.
Cricket was the first company in the United States to start selling iPhones on prepaid plans.
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About 4.5 years into my first company, YouSendIt, I was ready to throw in the towel.
In February, Shahid Balwa became the first company executive to be arrested in connection with the scandal.
When I built my first company in the 90s, I did everything smart until I did everything stupid.
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Kim started her first company at the age of 19 while she was a student at Brown University.
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It claims it was the first company to mass produce digital TVs (without the set-top box), in 1998.
He later took up electrical engineering and set up his first company, Lexicon, in 1978 at age 31.
The first company I was at for eight years worked much more professionally and abided by the rules.
It was his first company-wide communication with employees since succeeding Edward Whiteacre Jr. as CEO on Sept. 1.
They're apparently the first company to offer such a service in North America.
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