Instead he founded a literary magazine, which he financed by opening the city's first coin-operated laundry.
He founded a wine shop and restaurant chain called PlumpJack in the early 1990s.
And while in law school, he founded a Web site where students could find law school resources.
He founded a rock museum in Seattle as well as a computer museum that houses old mammoth-sized servers.
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While working as a business professor at Brigham Young, he founded a leadership center to offer management seminars.
Laughlin began his career in the litigation support market in 1995, when he founded a scanning and coding company.
In the middle of it all, in 1986, he founded a pharmaceutical company, Genericon Pharma, which he still runs.
In 1983 he founded a Muslim school in London and is now an active member of the British Islamic community.
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He founded a startup that was snapped up by search giant Google.
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In 2006 he founded a national coalition called Mayors Against Illegal Guns, after a series of deadly police shootings in New York.
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It started when he founded a mobile phone wholesaler in 1987 to sell a handful of brick-like devices for thousands of pounds each.
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In 1939, along with two partners whose stakes were later bought out, he founded a construction business which eventually became one of the largest in Brazil.
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He is a man so disgusted with the lack of ethics he witnessed in private enterprise that he founded a nonprofit to hand out dog food.
He founded a university in Angola, gave loans to women-owned businesses in Ecuador and ran a company that supplies heat to 147 homeless shelters in Boston.
In 1971 he founded a journal called Annals of Clinical and Laboratory Science, which he was helping to edit up to a few weeks before his death.
His BMW Oracle team, which he founded a decade ago, beat rival billionaire Ernesto Bertarelli and his Alinghi team, by a margin of 5 minutes and 25 seconds.
On Friday August 19, Sehat Sutardja, CEO and President of Marvell Semiconductor, gave a talk where he described how he got into electronics by learning to fix radios in Indonesia and how that eventually led to his coming to school in the US where he founded a major semiconductor company.
Back home in Gorakhpur, he had founded a group that he intended to focus on women's empowerment and child development.
He has founded a firm called Trebletap which specialises in making art from war relics.
Mr. Zuckerberg's pledge comes as the company he founded confronts a Hollywood film's scathing depiction of the executive.
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For example, the Obama campaign has attacked certain Republican nominee Mitt Romney's successful business career, portraying the venture capitalist company he founded as a pioneer in outsourcing American jobs.
He believes this sort of approach will have far wider appeal than today's windows and mouse-based systems, and he has founded a start-up, called Perceptive Pixel, to commercialise the technology.
With a friend from college, he co-founded a small consulting firm called Jaywalk in 1999.
He was a student at Princeton University when he co-founded a company providing Internet access and Web hosting.
In addition to being on the board of a number of distinguished companies, he had also founded a business school in India and was known for his chartable giving.
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Last year he founded reCaptcha, a new take on the CAPTCHA that he says has yet to be broken and is already being used on thousands of sites, including Facebook, Twitter and Craigslist.
Several of the super PAC knockoffs were inspired by comedian Stephen Colbert, who created a buzz last year when he founded the Americans for a Better Tomorrow, Tomorrow super PAC to mock the Supreme Court's decision and what Mr. Colbert contends is its invitation for big money to play an even bigger role in politics.
He co-founded a record label, sold an apparel line and owns the 4040 nightclub franchise.
In 1993, he founded Headspace, a diversion that would eventually turn into a 15-year venture.
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