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, 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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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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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.
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.
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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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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Shortly after, First Solar signed a memorandum of understanding to jointly develop the first phase of the project with China Guangdong Nuclear Solar Energy Development, which was founded the month after First Solar was awarded the Ordos project.
More important, the first New World university was founded by Spain at Santo Domingo in 1538.
Other avant-garde gardening clubs operate in cities like Paris, Berlin, Tokyo and New York, where the Green Guerrillas, one of the first guerrilla groups, was founded by artist Liz Christy in 1973.
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Yet, as the professors point out, the desire to make management a profession like law and medicine was central to Harvard Business School in the first decades after it was founded 100 years ago.
In this context, UNESCO organized a workshop on the Global Microscience Experiments in partnership with the Islamic Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (ISESCO) and in collaboration with the Guri Vie Meilleure Foundation, founded by the First Lady of Niger.
Paul MacCready, the man behind the Gossamer Condor, the first human-powered aircraft, founded the mini-conglomerate.
Two of these young women founded Frestyl, the first location-based online music finding service.
Snowboard and surfing retailer Dennis "Chip" Wilson founded Lululemon after his first yoga class in 1998.
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