He then founded his own research firm to provide consulting services to investors seeking analysis of semiconductor companies.
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In July 1998 Thaksin abandoned Thailand's political mainstream and founded his own Thai Rak Thai (Thai Unity) Party.
Soon after he was expelled from the board, Watson, with a few friends, founded his own group, Earthforce.
His quest began long before he founded his own business nine years ago.
Dave became a partner in a private money management firm in 1986 and in 1989 founded his own firm.
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To seal the strained relations between the two former political buddies, Mr Mutharika quit the UDF and founded his own Democratic Progressive Party.
This week Francesco Cossiga, a former Christian Democratic president who has just founded his own party, attacked Mr Fini for his fascist past.
Pabrai knows the technology and IT business intimately, as he founded his own IT consulting and systems integration firm in 1991 (TransTech, Inc.).
But Defenders are notoriously difficult to find and import to the U.S. So the 28-year-old Chicago native founded his own company to scour North America and Europe for vintage specimens.
He founded his own company in 1967 to package books for other publishers, then developed his own book list, starting with "Yoga: 28 Day Exercise Plan, " still in print.
Wright refused and founded his own company--Walnut Creek, Calif.
He then left Likud and founded his own party, Yisrael Beiteinu (Israel Our Home), which became popular among the one million Russian-speaking Jews who came to Israel following the collapse of the Soviet Union.
After graduating from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Thanedar founded his own lab, working with clients to remove carcinogenic chemicals from their products and to formulate new ones, such as the black paste football players smear under their eyes.
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After Robert founded his own winery, his drive, his technological innovations and his proselytizing helped raise the bar for Napa Cabernet and to create the market for premium California wines, his partnership with Baron Phillip de Rothschild in the creation of Opus One being perhaps the ultimate validation of his vision.
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He founded and ran his own multi-media production company from 1985 to 2000 and worked on many Academy Award winning films, Grammy winning albums and Emmy winning TV shows.
Brian Kurth, 41, founded VocationVacations after questioning his own career choices.
Armstrong founded the Livestrong charity in 1997 after his own successful treatment for testicular cancer that had spread to his brain and lungs.
He felt his worries were founded when he learned that star NFL linebacker Junior Seau -- who took his own life last May -- suffered from a neurodegenerative brain disease that can develop from concussions known as chronic traumatic encephalopathy or CTE.
Shen Li Hui founded the Modern Sky label 10 years ago when his own band wanted to record an album.
In addition to buying and rehabbing the lodge, then decorating it with pieces from his own extensive art collection, he founded the Green Box Arts Festival in 2007.
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But Charles River is more the story of a man than of a mouse--a classic tale of a frustrated entrepreneur who wrests control of a family-founded company back from a giant corporation and remakes it in his own image.
Hautemont founded Ray Dream, a 3D software developer for Mac, and ran his own seed fund.
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Briton Knox-Johnston, who also founded the Clipper Round the World Yacht Race, added that many people had thought his own bid to circumnavigate the globe was impossible at the time.
He continues to create music under his own name, but his front-man role in the group he founded remains his primary commitment.
In 1689 Edward Lloyd founded one of the most successful businesses of all time, Lloyds of London, from his own coffee shop.
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.
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