Their founder life is far from the bootstrapping existence of so many startups.
Ms. CAROLYN McCLANAHAN (Founder, Life Planning Partners): Thank you for having me.
She's the founder of Life Planning Partners in Jacksonville, Florida.
Ever since his arrest earlier in the year, larger than life Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom has become one of the central figures in the global debate surrounding piracy and file-sharing.
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New Life's founder and chairman, Norvell L. Olive, and its president, Michael D.
Kodak's founder, Mr. Eastman, took his life at the age of 77 in what is now a museum celebrating the founder and Kodak's impact on photography.
By Lisa Nicole Bell, founder and CEO, Inspired Life Media Group.
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Joining a startup while it is still searching for a business model, they, too, see the promise of what can be and join the founder to bring the vision to life.
"a fun-house mirror version of This American Life", said founder Kevin Allison, referring to the popular US public radio program, currently based in New York, featuring many personal stories, including some told in The Moth.
The gatherings, along with running March Madness betting pools and other activities, help reclaim some of the lost camaraderie of office life, says co-founder Lance Somerfeld of Manhattan.
Mr. ERIC PRINCE (Founder and CEO, Blackwater): Every life, whether American or Iraqi, is precious.
Oracle founder Larry Ellison is no stranger to the good life.
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However, a bad credit score is not a life sentence, said Ted Daniels, founder and president of the Society for Financial Education and Professional Development.
"Successful people like Gates take advantage of opportunities because they're ready for them, " says Carol Vecchio, founder of the Seattle-based Centerpoint Institute for Life and Career Renewal.
Kirk, a widely known leader in the life sciences industry whose reputation as a founder of several successful biotech companies and savvy deal maker is almost unmatched.
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Sally Russell, co-founder of Netmums, said depression and anxiety could make life very difficult for parents with a new baby.
According to founder Flip Kromer, Infochimps was created to give data life in the same way that code hosting projects such as SourceForge or GitHub give life to code.
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Joe Perez, a founder of several technology companies, believes that, "mobile life coaches" will help monitor our diets and fitness regimes.
Guido Appenzeller, a former Morgenthaler EIR and co-founder of Voltage Security and now BigSwitch, runs both his personal life and business on Evernote.
He is co-founder of the Milken Family Foundation, chairman of the Milken Institute, and founder of medical philanthropies funding research into melanoma, cancer and other life-threatening diseases.
Recently, I interviewed Kristine Pearson, founder and CEO of Lifeline Energy, which improves the quality of life of vulnerable populations by providing renewable energy alternatives to those most in need.
And while out in the San Francisco Bay Area, we swing by the SETI institute to find out how the organization is actively looking for extraterrestrial life in the universe, including a discussion with SETI founder and developer of the Drake Equation, Frank Drake.
If the Supreme Court upholds the verdict, the founder of Turkey's Islamist movement will be banned from politics for life.
For group founder David Frane, the process is about finding a sustainable way of life without having to sacrifice too much.
Opposition also began to grow to a key provision of the application for court receivership: Samsung founder Lee Kun Hee vowed to put up 4 million shares of Samsung Life, which represents nearly three-quarters of the 26% ownership stake he holds in the insurer.
"Shaq is a larger-than-life hero with Chinese basketball fans, " says Terry Rhoads, founder of Zou Marketing, a sports consultancy in Shanghai.
Mr. Keating also noted the crucial role that life insurance can play in helping small businesses survive the death of a founder.
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He took control of the firm in 1996 when Mr Cantor was on a life-support machine, but only after a court battle with the founder's wife, Iris.
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